Name: Slouching Towards Kalamazoo
Author: Peter De Vries
ISBN: 9780140070705

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Anthony Thrasher is a fifteen-year-old underachiever who simply cannot grasp the mundane realities of the eighth grade. While under the tutelage of his free-spirited teacher Miss Maggie Doubloon (she has the audacity to assign The Scarlet Letter to her class), Tony suddenly finds himself a father. Miss Doubloon leaves town wearing a large "A+" emblazoned on her T-shirt and returns to her hometown of Kalamazoo. Following Maggie and their illegitimate son, Ahab, Tony meets Bubbles Breedlove—Ahab's buxom, virginal nursemaid—and falls madly in love with her.

The plot thickens as Peter De Vries throws in one crotchety grandfather, a dog named Chuck, and a born-again-atheist-turned-radio-announcer in this hilariously sidesplitting novel about love, religion, social mores, and growing up.

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Author Peter De Vries

Published Jul 1983

Main Genre General Fiction

Pages 241

Rating 4.0

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Jul 1984 Penguin ISBN13 9780140070705 ISBN10 0140070702

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Jun 2005 University of Chicago Press ISBN13 9780226143897 ISBN10 0226143899

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First Edition Jul 1983 Little, Brown ISBN13 9780316181723 ISBN10 0316181722

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Sep 2012 University of Chicago Press ISBN13 9780226149202 ISBN10 022614920X

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Sep 2012 University of Chicago Press ISBN10 B00FNK2YZQ

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