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Adios, Nirvana
Conrad Wesselhoeft

Adios, Nirvana

Harcourt (Oct 25, 2010)
9780547368955
| Hardcover
240 pages
Dewey 1010
LC Classification PZ7.W5166 .Adi 2010
LC Control No. 2010006759

Genre

  • General Fiction
  • Teens
  • Young Adult

Subject

  • Juvenile Fiction / Boys & Men
  • Juvenile Fiction / Family / Siblings
  • Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / United States / General
  • Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues / Death & Dying

Plot

When you piss off a bridge into a snowstorm, it feels like you’re connecting with eternal things. Paying homage to something or someone. But who? The Druids? Walt Whitman? No, I pay homage to one person only, my brother, my twin. In life. In death. Telemachus. Since the death of his brother, Jonathan’s been losing his grip on reality. Last year’s Best Young Poet and gifted guitarist is now Taft High School’s resident tortured artist, when he bothers to show up. He's on track to repeat eleventh grade, but his English teacher, his principal, and his crew of Thicks (who refuse to be seniors without him) won’t sit back and let him fail.