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How All This Started : A Novel
How All This Started A Novel
Author: Pete Fromm
The striking debut novel from award-winning writer Pete Fromm — Abilene and Austin, a sister and brother frustrated with the small-town Texas life their parents have chosen, turn to each other to escape the story they're all too tired of hearing: their father's unvarying account of "How All This Started"-how he met their mother then settle...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780312276973
ISBN-10: 0312276974
Publication Date: 10/5/2001
Pages: 320
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3.7 stars, based on 5 ratings
Publisher: Picador
Book Type: Paperback
Members Wishing: 0
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I spent some kid years in Texas and Fromm's dirt-dry desert depictions are spot on. His characters are highly memorable, especially high-flyin' Abilene...made me grateful that I've only got the depressive side of "manic-depression". Whooo doggies. There were times when even I felt trapped in her careening beater of a truck (poor thing), times when I nearly said, stop this book, I gotta get out! If you've ever lived with a bi-polar, you'll know the feeling.

Life in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the desert..."but it's a dry heat", my tail. Sometimes I think folks in hell find themselves saying, "heck, it's hotter'n Texas in here!" Be sure to settle in to read with a tall glass of sweet tea...you'll feel parched and wind-blown by the end.
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I actually could not get into this book


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