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A Boy's Guide to Outer Space
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1963. Hattertown, Connecticut. Leo "Half" Napoli mourns his dead hat factory worker father while daydreaming of being the first man on the moon and thereby partaking of something of the infinite. Meanwhile, he and his fellow Back Shop Boys (their fathers all worked in the dangerous,...
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1963. Hattertown, Connecticut. Leo "Half" Napoli mourns his dead hat factory worker father while daydreaming of being the first man on the moon and thereby partaking of something of the infinite.
Meanwhile, he and his fellow Back Shop Boys (their fathers all worked in the dangerous, mercury-fume-laden back shops of hat factories) seek to learn the identity of the mysterious Man in Blue, who wanders the town collecting odd items in his rucksack.
Elected to spy on him, Half and the mysterious man form a secret friendship, in the course of which Half learns not only what Jack Thomas has been collecting in his rucksack, and why, but also the extraordinary circumstances that led to his fugitive existence—an odyssey extending from pre-WWII Bohemia to a German POW Camp in Illinois, and beyond.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781646035113
Publisher: Regal House Publishing LLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 12 November 2024
Country: United States
Imprint: Regal House Publishing LLC
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 139.0mm
Height: 215.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 308
About the Author
Peter Selgin is the author of Drowning Lessons, winner of the Flannery O' Connor Award for Fiction. He has published two novels, two children' s books, three books on the writer' s craft, and two essay collections. His memoir, The Inventors, won the 2017 Housatonic Book Award. His novel, Duplicity, won the Best Indie Book Award and the Indie Excellence Book Award. He teaches at Georgia College where he is nonfiction editor and art director of the Arts & Letters.
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