Make Me Into A Volkswagen - Softcover

Devlin, R.V.

9781733804905: Make Me Into A Volkswagen

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ISBN 10: 1733804900 ISBN 13: 9781733804905

Publisher: Robert E. Devlin, 2019

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It's the late 1960s and 8-year-old Benny Thompson is living in a multi-racial housing project. Unlike his abusive father, subservient mother, and misfit brother, he is fun-loving, creative, adaptive, and maybe even sublimely normal. Girls adore him and he's a natural born comedian and mimic. He'll do anything to lift up the spirits of those he cares about. As he strives nobly to rise above his situation, the hits keep coming. Those include being forced to stay in bed for an entire summer, being forced for all to see at age nine to sit on the porch wearing only a diaper, and haircuts from hell. Despite his many successes and powerful presence, his breaking point finally comes in his mid-twenties after another of his father's disgraces once again isn't opposed by his mother. Fists fly, guns and a samurai sword are involved, a double funeral occurs, a beautiful Boise girl tackles Benny just in time, and a magical rebirth of a sort is in the cards. The 20-year rags to inner riches story of Benny The Unstoppable.

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