Boonville - Hardcover

Anderson, Robert Mailer

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Synopsis

Portrays Northern Californian counterculture in a darkly humorous coming-of-age story.

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About the Author

Robert Mailer Anderson is in the fifth generation of a northern California clan of railroad workers, prison guards and tamale vendors. He studied under writer Shelby Hearon and has published short stories in "Christopher Street." He lives with his wife and son in San Francisco.

From the Inside Flap

"Robert Mailer Anderson is a very sick man - and a very funny writer." Carl Hiaasen

"Because I think Boonville by Robert Mailer Anderson is terrific, I am obliged to state that he is not a relative. He has, however, written a most exciting first novel and gives more than a few signs that he could become a member of that vanishing American breed - a major novelist." Norman Mailer

"Robert Mailer Anderson is a young writer of energy, style, and wit." Martin Cruz Smith

"Robert Mailer Anderson's a brilliant new voice - twitchy, corny, sly, cackling and sad, but most of all, racing with vitality and goosing you to keep up. Boonville is the creepy and hilarious coming-of-age story the territory deserves - not your parent's Vineland, but your own." Jonathan Lethem

"Boonville offers a quirky slice of California that's not for the faint of heart. Anderson is a bold, bright, funny writer who keeps the pages turning." Bill Barich

"Boonville Heralds the debut of an engaging, clear-eyed new talent. Anderson has achieved an engrossing vision of tangled lives on the edge of the world, and done it on an ambitious scale. He has drawn the Northern California counterculture scene, its mores and wildnesses, with a fresh, original hand. Best of all, he is writing as one of the rare members of his emerging generation that brings a true moral and philosophical depth to his edgy subject matter." Naomi Wolf

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9780060516215: Boonville: A Novel

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ISBN 10:  0060516216 ISBN 13:  9780060516215
Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2003
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