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      The Petting Zoo

      by Jim Carroll
      Published
      Nov 2010
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      Literary Literary
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      336
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      A moving, vividly rendered novel from the author of The Basketball Diaries

      Suffused with Jim Carroll's humor and sharp wit, his delicate yet hallucinatory imagery, and his cool, sophisticated, streetsmart voice, The Petting Zoo is a frank, haunting examination of one artist's personal and spiritual quest. Billy Wolfram, an enigmatic thirty-eight- year-old star of the late-1980s New York art scene, views a show of Velázquez paintings and is so humbled by their spiritual power that he suffers an emotional breakdown and retreats to his Chelsea loft. In seclusion, he recalls the most emblematic moments and figures of his childhood and early career as he searches to recover the spark of inspiration in his own work and life.

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      General Fiction

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      Literary

      Themes

      Visionary & Metaphysical

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      Oct 2011 Penguin ISBN13 9780143120094 ISBN10 0143120093
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      First Edition Nov 2010 Viking ISBN13 9780670022182 ISBN10 0670022187
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      Nov 2010 Penguin ISBN13 9781101445266 ISBN10 1101445262
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      Nov 2010 Penguin ISBN10 B00466IM3Q
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      Feb 2011 Tantor Media ISBN13 9781617070112 ISBN10 1617070114
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