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The Tetherballs of Bougainville
The Tetherballs of Bougainville
Author: Mark Leyner
From his cult classic,  I Smell Esther Williams, to his wildly popular and insightful column "Wild Kingdom" appearing in Esquire magazine every month, Mark Leyner has been giving us up close and personal encounters of the most hilarious kind for over a decade. — Now, in his new novel The Tetherballs of Bougainvill...  more », Leyner shares with us,  long last, the quintessential coming of age story that every writer, at some point, is compelled to tell.  In the novel we meet young Mark Leyner, 13-years-old to be exact, as he waits in a New Jersey prison to witness his father's execution.  Adolescence is never easy, and it just so happens that this junior high schooler is on deadline to turn in a screenplay for which he has already been awarded the Vincent and Lenore DiGiacomo/Oshimitsu Polymers America Award.  And, as it was for all of us during out teenage years, nothing seems to go as planned.

Written as autobiography, screenplay and movie review, The Tetherballs of Bougainville twists three familiar narrative forms into an outlandishly compelling story.  Leyner's use of the media-driven formats brilliantly reflects our secret, shameful and hilarious desire to experience our private lives as mass entertainment.  The Tetherballs of Bougainville skewers and celebrates American pop culture in the late twentieth century.  Leyner's version of our lives is so deeply funny because it is so painfully true.
ISBN-13: 9780517701010
ISBN-10: 0517701014
Publication Date: 9/23/1997
Pages: 240
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Publisher: Harmony
Book Type: Hardcover
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Helpful Score: 1
I just couldn't get into it. It started off so bizarre that I could not get past the first 10 pages. If you are into the weird and wacky, give it a try...maybe you can convince me to hang in there and give it another go.
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hated it. not my cup of tea.
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