Citrus county

John Brandon

ISBN 10: 1934781533 / ISBN 13: 9781934781531

Published by McSweeney's Rectangulars, San Francisco, 2010

About this Item

This book is in Very Good condition. Minor sun fading on spine (see photos). No dust jacket, as issued. Unstated First Edition, unstated first printing. Signed by author on title page.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Citrus county
• Publisher: McSweeney's Rectangulars, San Francisco
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1934781533
• ISBN 13: 9781934781531
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author

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Synopsis

There shouldn’t be a Citrus County. Teenage romance should be difficult, but not this difficult. Boys like Toby should cause trouble but not this much. The moon should glow gently over children safe in their beds. Uncles in their rockers should be kind. Teachers should guide and inspire. Manatees should laze and palm trees sway and snakes keep to their shady spots under the azalea thickets. The air shouldn’t smell like a swamp. The stars should twinkle. Shelby should be her own hero, the first hero of Citrus County. She should rescue her sister from underground, rescue Toby from his life. Her destiny should be a hero’s destiny.

Reviews

Brandon (Arkansas) finds shards of redemption in the swampy backwaters of Florida in his funny and horrifying latest. When Shelby Register moves to Citrus County, Fla., with her single father and little sister, she's expecting "surfers instead of rednecks," but the precocious teen makes the best of it. Things get screwy when Toby, a neglected, loveless boy living with his abusive uncle, becomes her twisted love interest. Toby finds trouble far more elaborate than ordinary delinquency when he enacts a strange, cruel plot on the Register clan. Presiding over it all in his own confused state is Mr. Hibma, a young teacher draped in irony and disaffection who lectures on the evils of capitalism, avoids his colleagues, and wants to do good but isn't sure how. As the Register family's misery deepens, Shelby begins to test boundaries, Toby realizes that he can't reverse the effects of his "prank," and his and Shelby's braided fates hurtle toward either tragedy or a narrow miss. Brandon's dry wit, dark imagination, and surprisingly big heart combine to reveal a Florida that, despite (or because of) being more Ted Bundy than Disney World, is absolutely worth visiting.
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