Excerpt from Smedley's Secret Guide to World Literature

by Askold Melnyczuk

Book Overview

Why is everyone angry with Jonathan? Suspended from school a week before Memorial Day, the savvy and cyber-sexed fifteen-year old is charged by his poet-father to write a history of literature in the age of Twitter. Jonathan absconds to Manhattan to care for his high-living godfather, who recently had a stroke, but the siren song of the city keeps him distracted. When he meets the worldly Beatriz, his life threatens to take a sharp turn. Speaking...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 099702481X
• ISBN13: 9780997024814
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Pfp
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"