The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
of Chris Fuhrman (Illustrations)
Description
Set in Savannah, Georgia, in the early 1970s, this is a novel of the anarchic joy of youth and encounters with the concerns of early adulthood. Francis Doyle, Tim Sullivan, and their three closest friends are altar boys at Blessed Heart Catholic Church and eighth-grade classmates at the parish school. They are also inveterate pranksters, artistic, and unimpressed by adult authority. When Sodom vs. Gomorrah '74, their collaborative comic book depicting Blessed Heart's nuns and priests gleefully breaking the seventh commandment, falls into the hands of the principal, the boys, certain that their parents will be informed, conspire to create an audacious diversion. Woven into the details of the boys' preparations for the stunt are touching, hilarious renderings of the school day routine and the initiatory rites of male adolescence, from the first serious kiss to the first serious hangover.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 200 pages
- Publisher University of Georgia Press
- Publication Date September 28th 2001
- First Publication 10/30/94
- Language English
- ISBN 9780820323381
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['Savannah, Georgia (United States)']
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