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Endearing, infuriating, and utterly irresistible, Lamar Kerry is a twenty-seven-year-old Ordinary White Boy. He wears khaki pants, work boots, and flannel shirts; dances like Mick Jagger when he dances at all (only when drunk); and when in doubt, he reaches for a beer. His father sent him to college expecting him to become extraordinary, but Lamar returned home a bright, cocky, over-educated, middle-class boy adrift in a depressed, comatose, working-class town.
Now the town's only Hispanic is missing and feared dead, Lamar's mother is enfeebled by MS, and both his girlfriend and his father are tired of being disappointed in him. Can Lamar turn himself into a professor of "racist remediation" and save the soul of his town? Can he stop hiding out in his ordinariness and do what is right by his father, his mother, his girlfriend, and himself? Can this ordinary white boy finally become a man?
With a character both unforgettably unique yet universal, in a voice both tender and biting, Clarke mixes subtle social criticism with laugh-out-loud funny observations and introduces to literature the ordinary white boy in all of us.
Now the town's only Hispanic is missing and feared dead, Lamar's mother is enfeebled by MS, and both his girlfriend and his father are tired of being disappointed in him. Can Lamar turn himself into a professor of "racist remediation" and save the soul of his town? Can he stop hiding out in his ordinariness and do what is right by his father, his mother, his girlfriend, and himself? Can this ordinary white boy finally become a man?
With a character both unforgettably unique yet universal, in a voice both tender and biting, Clarke mixes subtle social criticism with laugh-out-loud funny observations and introduces to literature the ordinary white boy in all of us.
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- Title The Ordinary White Boy
- Author Clarke, Brock
- Binding Trade Cloth
- Edition First Edition; F
- Pages 257
- Language EN
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.
- Date 2001-09-10
- ISBN 9780151008100
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ADVANCE PRAISE FOR ORDINARY WHITE BOY
"An extraordinary account of what passes as ordinary life in an upstate New York community. Brock Clarke treats small-town controversy with wit and sympathy, and along the way he unravels conventional measures of self-worth. A confident, fierce, and hilarious novel with great emotional richness."
--Joanna Scott, author of Arrogance and Make Believe
"This is a smart, honest, funny, winning book. Extraordinary, really."
--Antonya Nelson, author of Talking in Bed and Nobody's Girl
"An extraordinary account of what passes as ordinary life in an upstate New York community. Brock Clarke treats small-town controversy with wit and sympathy, and along the way he unravels conventional measures of self-worth. A confident, fierce, and hilarious novel with great emotional richness."
--Joanna Scott, author of Arrogance and Make Believe
"This is a smart, honest, funny, winning book. Extraordinary, really."
--Antonya Nelson, author of Talking in Bed and Nobody's Girl
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