Rides of the Midway: A Novel by Lee Durkee - First Edition - 2001 - from Nan's Book Shop and Biblio.com

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Noel Weatherspoon is an asthmatic Mississippi teenager who is haunted by two disasters: the death of his father in Vietnam, and a collision during a Little League game with another player who has been in a coma ever since.

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"A tremendously energetic first novel....Durkee writes with a southern accent that doesn't smother a unique voice, and his roller-coaster ride of a story leaves a reader breathless and waiting for more."

Rides of the Midway: A Novel

by Durkee, Lee

First Edition

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Book description: Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2001. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Heartbreaking and wickedly funny, Rides of the Midway whirls through the manic Mississippi nights of haunted teenager Noel Weatherspoon. Weatherspoon is many things: An unwitting clairvoyant, an extreme asthma sufferer, a ghost-seeing insomniac, an endearing dopehead, a wanna-be erotic photographer, a would-be baseball star, a lamentable virgin, and a suspected, somnambulent mercy-killer. Spinning in ten directions at once by his passions and missteps, he finds himself haunted by ghosts both real and imagined: By the specter of the boy he knocked into oblivion while sliding home in a Little League game, and by the spirit of his father, a POW who disappeared in Vietnam. The binding is deep green and black in a moire pattern. The jacket has a scuff mark on the back. 316 pages. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Bookseller: Nan's Book Shop (US)
Bookseller Inventory #: 001346
Format/binding: Hard Cover
Book condition: Fine
Jacket condition: Near Fine
Quantity available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 039304971X
ISBN 13: 9780393049718
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Place: Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Date published: 2001
Pages: 316
Size: 5.75 x 8.5 x 1.25 inches
LCCN: PS3554.U6865R53 2001
Dewey: 813/.6
Weight: 1.1 pounds
Keywords: MISSISSIPPI FICTION
Subjects: FICTION / Humorous;

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