Asylum for Nightface
by Bruce Brooks
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A deeply spiritual seventeen-year-old takes a radical step to save himself from the fanaticism of his born-again Christian parents.Tags
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A very interesting story about the son of materialistic yuppies who slowly develops religious faith and the effect it has on the people around him. Easy to read but it comes to challenging conclusions.
This book is extremely underrated! It is one of the best books I have ever read. Ever. It is a Young Adult novel about a boy who has always been very well behaved, no matter how unhinged his parents become. Eventually, though, the pressure of reputation can catch up with a person.
I feel awfully stupid for saying this, but this book made no sense to me at all. What did Zimmerman and Nightface have to do with one another? I kept waiting for the two stories to connect and it never happened. I was mystified from page one all the way to the end,
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Bruce Brooks was born in Richmond, Virginia on September 23, 1950. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1972 and from the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop in 1980. He has worked as a newspaper reporter, a magazine writer, newsletter editor, movie critic, teacher and lecturer. He has written several children's show more books including Everywhere, Midnight Hour Encores, Asylum for Nightface, Vanishing, No Kidding, and Throwing Smoke. He has received the Newbery Honor twice, first for The Moves Make the Man in 1985 and then for What Hearts in 1992. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Fiction and Literature, Teen, Tween, Young Adult
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- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
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- PZ7 .B7913 .A — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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