Sad Stories of the Death of Kings

by Barry Gifford

Book Overview

Roy is a lover of adventure movies, a budding writer, and a young man slowly coming of age without the benefit of a father. Surrounding him--whether to support him or to drag him under--is the adult world of postwar Chicago, a city haunted by violence, poverty, and the redeeming power of imagination. Here are charlatans, operators, alien abductees, schoolyard nudists, and fast girls with only months to live. At the center of it all is a boy learning...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583229221
• ISBN13: 9781583229224
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher