The Slot Machine - Softcover

Chris Lynch

3.52

174 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853717908 ISBN 13: 9781853717901

Publisher: Poolbeg Press Ltd, 1997

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If you don't have a slot, what are we going to do with you? They call it Twenty-One Nights with the Knights. But for Elvin Bishop - fourteen, overweight, and a self- proclaimed non-athlete - the summer retreat is more like the twenty-one trials of hell. As everyone around him slips smoothly into a slot in his chosen sport, Elvin is pounded on the football field, slammed on the baseball diamond, and tortured on the wrestling mat. And he still can't find a slot.. From the acclaimed author of Shadow Boxer, here is a raw, darkly funny story about growing up and finding a place in the world. A Best Book for Young Adults.

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Review:

This darkly funny look at growing up male in America is narrated by chubby, 14-year-old Elvin Bishop, who describes, with sublime sarcasm, his increasingly painful efforts to find his appropriate athletic "slot." Mature readers will find this unusual sports story both hilarious and poignant; in a starred review, Booklist wrote, "this wry, thoughtful book speaks with wisdom and heart to the victim and the outsider in us all." An ALA Best Book for Young Adults.

About the Author:

Chris Lynch is a National Book Award finalist and the author of many highly acclaimed books for young adults, including The Big Game of Everything, Who the Man, and the Michael L. Printz Honor Book Freewill; Iceman, Shadow boxer, Gold Dust, and Slot Machine, all ALA Best Books for Young Adults; and Extreme Elvin. He also mentors aspiring writers and teaches in the creative writing program at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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