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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I enjoyed this book. Jack is a sweetly realistic young man. Watching him learn and grasp the lessons of adulthood surrounded by a loving and flawed supportive "family" makes for a pleasant few hours. The book is a little dated (1989) in the character's reaction to Jack's dad's gayness, but probably not as much as I'd like to believe. (  )nancyewhite | Nov 10, 2007 |   I read this novel after reading Homes's End of Alice. This novel is entirely a different animal but no less provocative. Jack, the main character, discovers one day that his father is gay. This is a journey of a boy on the cusp of adulthood and how he deals with his gay father. (  )astroantiquity | Jun 26, 2007 | 0.030 seconds to build listing
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0679732217, Paperback)In Jack, A. M. Homes gives us a teenager who wants nothing more than to be normal—even if being normal means having divorced parents and a rather strange best friend. But when Jack’s father takes him out in a rowboat on Lake Watchmayoyo and tells his son he’s gay, nothing will ever be normal again. Out of Jack’s struggle to redefine what “family” means, A. M. Homes crafts a novel of enormous humor, charm, and resonance, the most convincing, funny, and insightful novel about adolescence since The Catcher in the Rye.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:53 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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