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Going Nowhere Faster
Sean Beaudoin
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Description for Going Nowhere Faster
Paperback. Good Will Hunting meets Clerks: a hilarious coming-of-age story of a genius slacker Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: YFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 142 x 16. Weight in Grams: 234.
Stan Smith is a loser. At 17, the former junior chess champion has become the 'Town's Laziest Register Monkey at the Town's Only Video Store'. Having graduated high school, Stan decides to forgo college to live in his parent's garage and write a movie. Despite his 165 IQ, all his movie ideas are horrible, not that he even comes close to finishing one. His only transport is his beat-up 10-speed bike that keeps getting vandalized. With no future and no car, a girl is obviously out of the question and if that weren't pathetic enough, he has to deal with ... Read more
Stan Smith is a loser. At 17, the former junior chess champion has become the 'Town's Laziest Register Monkey at the Town's Only Video Store'. Having graduated high school, Stan decides to forgo college to live in his parent's garage and write a movie. Despite his 165 IQ, all his movie ideas are horrible, not that he even comes close to finishing one. His only transport is his beat-up 10-speed bike that keeps getting vandalized. With no future and no car, a girl is obviously out of the question and if that weren't pathetic enough, he has to deal with ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780316014168
SKU
V9780316014168
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99-10
About Sean Beaudoin
Like Stan Smith, Sean Beaudoin spent his childhood in a small town. He later earned a B.A. in photography, which he used as a springboard into a variety of jobs: construction labourer, bus boy, used book buyer, hotel desk clerk, camp counsellor, statue repairman, dealer of jazz records on eBay, and reluctant telemarketer.
Reviews for Going Nowhere Faster
Alternately hilarious and poignant, the novel is over far too soon
- Voya 'Compelling and hilarious’
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- Voya 'Compelling and hilarious’
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