Description
Title: You Don’t Know Me
Author: David Klass
ISBN: 9780374387068
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Published: 2001
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 272
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher : Dark and funny.
John (“My father named me after a toilet!”) wrestles with the certainty that no one really knows him — not in his miserable home, and certainly not at school. It’s true that no one can guess his hidden thoughts, which are hilarious, razor-sharp observations about lust, love, tubas, algebra, everything. And then there’s his home: his father ran off years ago, so he’s being raised by his mother, who works long hours, and by her boyfriend, whom John calls “the man who is not and never will be my father.” This man is his enemy, an abusive disciplinarian who seems to want to kill John and, in a horrible final confrontation, nearly succeeds.
Moving, wholly involving, original, and emotionally true, “You Don’t Know Me” is a multilayered novel that presents a winning portrait of an understandably angst-ridden adolescent.
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