The Resource Project X : a novel, Jim Shepard
Project X : a novel, Jim Shepard
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The item Project X : a novel, Jim Shepard represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- Summary
- Below the sign welcoming the new eighth-grade class to school is one that promises to leave no child unsuccessful and a handout that offers eight ways of being smart. For Edwin Hanratty, at times as hilarious as he is miserable, this is part of what makes junior high pretty much a relentless nightmare. And so, with Flake, his only friend, he contends with clique upon clique-the jocks who pummel them, the girls who ignore or taunt them-as well as the dogged and disconcerting attentions of a sixth-grader who's even more ferociously disaffected than they are. And while Edwin's parents work hard to understand him, they face without fully realizing it demoralization so systemic that he and Flake have no recourse other than their own bitter and smart remarks, until they gradually begin flirting with the most horrible revenge of all. This lethal impulse, which has touched communities across America, has never been given such shocking credibility as it has in Project X, which suggests that these boys' central predicament is not their hatred of the world but their agonized and enduring love of it. Never before has Jim Shepard's compassionate virtuosity been on such conspicuous, unsettling, and haunting display
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Project X : a novel
- Title
- Project X
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Jim Shepard
- Subject
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- Eighth grade (Education) -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Male friendship
- Male friendship -- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Eighth grade (Education)
- Revenge -- Fiction
- School violence
- School violence -- Fiction
- Suburban life
- Suburban life -- Fiction
- Teenage boys
- Teenage boys -- Fiction
- Revenge
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Below the sign welcoming the new eighth-grade class to school is one that promises to leave no child unsuccessful and a handout that offers eight ways of being smart. For Edwin Hanratty, at times as hilarious as he is miserable, this is part of what makes junior high pretty much a relentless nightmare. And so, with Flake, his only friend, he contends with clique upon clique-the jocks who pummel them, the girls who ignore or taunt them-as well as the dogged and disconcerting attentions of a sixth-grader who's even more ferociously disaffected than they are. And while Edwin's parents work hard to understand him, they face without fully realizing it demoralization so systemic that he and Flake have no recourse other than their own bitter and smart remarks, until they gradually begin flirting with the most horrible revenge of all. This lethal impulse, which has touched communities across America, has never been given such shocking credibility as it has in Project X, which suggests that these boys' central predicament is not their hatred of the world but their agonized and enduring love of it. Never before has Jim Shepard's compassionate virtuosity been on such conspicuous, unsettling, and haunting display
- Additional physical form
- Also issued online.
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Shepard, Jim
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3569.H39384
- LC item number
- P76 2004
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Eighth grade (Education)
- Male friendship
- School violence
- Suburban life
- Teenage boys
- Revenge
- Psychological fiction
- Eighth grade (Education)
- Male friendship
- Psychological fiction
- Revenge
- School violence
- Suburban life
- Teenage boys
- School violence
- Teenage boys
- Label
- Project X : a novel, Jim Shepard
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocm52268798
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 163 pages
- Isbn
- 9781400040711
- Lccn
- 2003047575
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Label
- Project X : a novel, Jim Shepard
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocm52268798
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 163 pages
- Isbn
- 9781400040711
- Lccn
- 2003047575
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
Subject
- Eighth grade (Education) -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Male friendship
- Male friendship -- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Eighth grade (Education)
- Revenge -- Fiction
- School violence
- School violence -- Fiction
- Suburban life
- Suburban life -- Fiction
- Teenage boys
- Teenage boys -- Fiction
- Revenge
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