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Jack of Hearts
by Joseph Hansen
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Hansen brings back Nathan Reed, the hero of "Living Upstairs", in this coming-of-age novel set in 1941 California. Nathan is now 17 and a college student and budding playwright. After an affair with a waitress and then with a dangerous older man, he begins to wonder what he really wants from life.
Available editions of Jack of Hearts
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9780452273436,
Paperback,
Penguin USA,
1996
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9780525939245,
Hardcover,
Penguin USA,
1995
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Publisher Notes
The year is 1941, the place a small California foothill town. Nathan Reed, at age seventeen, bewildered by sex but sure he wants to be a writer, falls in among a little-theater crowd he hopes will stage his first play, and learns from them painful lessons in growing up.
Media Reviews
"...a quick, largely enjoyable read despite flaws of characterization and storytelling...a pretty good little novel that might have been a very good little novel."
First Line
The first Monday of January 1941 is fair and fine, so the windows and the door to the back porch stand open, but still, as it does every morning, the kitchen smells of burned toast.
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