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White guys
- Title
- White guys / Anthony Giardina.
- Author
- Giardina, Anthony.
- Publication
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
- Supplementary Content
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3557.I135 W48 2006 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 371 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Back in hardscrabble Winship, Massachusetts, in the early 1970s, Billy Mogavero was everything his friends wanted to be - tough, sexy, graceful, a leader of young men. Twenty years later, the four teenagers who followed him around have all made it out of Winship. Have made it, period. Only Billy has stayed behind. Now he's a paint salesman, living at home with his mentally handicapped brother. When the guys go back to visit the old neighborhood, their reunion gives Billy's life a second act in yuppie Boston, where his charm finally catapults him into the suburban respectability he and his friends have been working for all their lives." "No one is more enthralled by Billy's social success than his old best friend, Timmy O'Kane. As he watches Billy move up in the mall development business and marry a woman who's every bit his match in nerve and daring, Timmy feels the limitations of his own safe life: his quiet career selling textbooks, his sensible marriage into a well-to-do family and a cozy suburb. After Billy and his pregnant wife are victims of a drive-by shooting, which only Billy survives, Timmy is ensnared in a series of events that threatens to bring his life tumbling down around him - a risk that is both terrifying and terrifyingly seductive."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Psychological fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- ISBN
- 0374281440 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005054166
- 9780374281441
- OCLC
- OCM61865191
- SCSB-5247014
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries