Palo Alto

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ISBN9780571273188
AuthorsJames Franco
PublisherFaber & Faber
FormatPaperback
Number of pages224
Weight (kg)0.180
Publishing Date04/08/2011
Price (excl. tax)€10.94
Tax€0.66
Price (incl. tax)€11.60
Availability3 units in external warehouse

Product Description

Palo Alto is the debut of a powerful new literary voice. Written with an immediacy and sense of place Palo Alto traces the lives of an extended group of teenagers as they experiment with vices of all kinds, struggle with their families and one another, and succumb to self-destructive, often heartless nihilism. Franco presents his characters in all their raw humanity, while at the same time providing insight into the teenage mind.

In the classic American tradition of story-cycles such as Sherwood Anderson''s Winesburg, Ohio, Palo Alto presents a stark, vivid, disturbing, but, above all, compassionate portrait of lives on the rough fringes of youth.