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JOHN BRANDON Citrus County Signed McSweeney's HARDCOVER Book Second Edition
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- Novel
- Signed By
- John Brandon
- Signed
- Yes
- Special Attributes
- Signed, 1st Edition
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Subject
- Literature, Modern
- ISBN
- 9781934781531
- Book Title
- Citrus County
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Publisher
- Mcsweeney's Publishing
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Thrillers / Suspense, General, Literary, Gothic
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 14 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Mcsweeney's Publishing
ISBN-10
1934781533
ISBN-13
9781934781531
eBay Product ID (ePID)
127443703
Product Key Features
Book Title
Citrus County
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Thrillers / Suspense, General, Literary, Gothic
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
14 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pz7.B73686ci 2010
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." --Publishers Weekly "John Brandon is my favorite new writer. His debut,Arkansas, was hilarious and at the same time disturbing in its detached violence. It set a high bar, andCitrus Countynudges that bar even higher. This is a writer to watch, to reread, and to envy." --Tom Franklin "Pursues relentlessly what each of us might find daily in a Florida town... The purity of thought and of unadorned line are remarkable." --Barry Hannah "Brandon writes of fatigue, longing, and finally love, with an energy and wit that is victorious and entirely his own." --Deb Olin Unferth "Citrus Countyis a real charmer, infused with a kind of rueful hilarity that reminded me of the great Tom Drury. The book makes you laugh even as it breaks your heart, and it may be, among other things, one of the best books about junior high ever written." --Dan Chaon "John Brandon is a prose marksman--half Denis Johnson, half Elmore Leonard." --Davy Rothbart "John Brandon isn't the only writer documenting the dissolving of American communities, but he may be the funniest. His criminals are like no others I know, and his dialogue feels like the wild original of something domesticated in most novels." --Marshall Klimasewiski, "WithCitrus CountyJohn Brandon joins the ranks of writers like Denis Johnson, Joy Williams, Mary Robison and Tom Drury, writers whose wild flights feel more likely than a heap of what we've come to expect from literature, by calmly reminding us that the world is far more startling than most fiction is. He subverts the expectations of an adolescent novel by staying true to the wild incongruities of adolescence, and subverts the expectations of a crime novel by giving us people who are more than criminals and victims. The result is a great story in great prose, a story that keeps you turning pages even as you want to slow to savor them, full of characters who are real because they are so unlikely." --New York Times Book Review "If you care at all about books, and what they can do, then this dirty realism is for you.... There are very few writers who are as adept at stripping a sentence down to its very essence; nor are there many whose sentences leave a reader so black and blue." --John Hood,Miami Sun-Post "[A] chilling and dispiriting new novel... this book is impossible to put down." --Jim Ross,Ocala Star-Banner "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." --Publishers Weekly "[Citrus Countyis] not an easy book. One doesn't want to imagine that cold-blooded quasi-sociopaths are on the local eighth grade track team. But Brandon's unflinching look at the devastated inner life of his characters is so unerring that it's hard to look away. Exactly as they planned, by unleashing their most macabre impulses these characters become more vibrant, impossible to ignore." --Janet Potter,Bookslut "John Brandon's macabre novel Citrus County is at once touching, funny, and terrifying. Definitely an odd (and extremely rare) combination, but Brandon is a master at creating greatly flawed, believable characters who jump off the page and into our memories. Brandon's debut novel Arkansas greatly impressed me and landed on my favorite novels of 2008 list. Citrus County is a worthy successor, a book that haunts as well as it entertains." --Largehearted Boy "Last night I stayed up late because I had to finish John Brandon's upcoming novelCitrus County. And when I say I had to finish, I mean I was compelled! Gripped! Creeped out! I was nervous about what might happen to the various characters in their various states of peril! John Brandon is a wonderful writer in a literary way but not MERELY. I mean, there's real suspense. Sometimes writers get all beautiful on you and forget to remind you to turn the pages. Not John Brandon! He does it all." --Jack Pendarvis "Pursues relentlessly what each of us might fin, "John Brandon is my favorite new writer. His debut,Arkansas, was hilarious and at the same time disturbing in its detached violence. It set a high bar, andCitrus Countynudges that bar even higher. This is a writer to watch, to reread, and to envy." -Tom Franklin "Pursues relentlessly what each of us might find daily in a Florida town… The purity of thought and of unadorned line are remarkable." -Barry Hannah "Brandon writes of fatigue, longing, and finally love, with an energy and wit that is victorious and entirely his own." -Deb Olin Unferth "Citrus Countyis a real charmer, infused with a kind of rueful hilarity that reminded me of the great Tom Drury. The book makes you laugh even as it breaks your heart, and it may be, among other things, one of the best books about junior high ever written." -Dan Chaon "John Brandon is a prose marksman-half Denis Johnson, half Elmore Leonard." -Davy Rothbart "John Brandon isn't the only writer documenting the dissolving of American communities, but he may be the funniest. His criminals are like no others I know, and his dialogue feels like the wild original of something domesticated in most novels." -Marshall Klimasewiski
Copyright Date
2010
Target Audience
Juvenile Audience
Lccn
2010-282113
Dewey Decimal
[Fic]
Intended Audience
Ages 9-12, Ages 4-8, Ages 2-3, under 2 Years
Dewey Edition
22
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