Novedad Candlewick

Título: Punkzilla
Autor: Adam Rapp
Número de páginas: 256
Editorial: Candlewick
Fecha original de publicación: 2009
País: Estados Unidos
ISBN: 978-0763630317

Sinopsis: (Tomada de Booklist) "The 61-word run-on sentence on the first page sets the stream-of-consciousness tone, and then two pages later there’s hand jobs and meth—yep, it’s a Rapp novel, all right. And the quality hits the high standards of 33 Snowfish (2003) and Under the Wolf, Under the Dog (2004). Fourteen-year-old Jamie (aka “Punkzilla”) has gone AWOL from his military school, is off his meds, and is making his way from Oregon to Memphis, where his older brother, Peter, is dying of cancer. Though he is thankful to leave behind his career as an iPod thief, life on the road doesn’t seem much better: his fellow Greyhound riders are frightening, he gets jumped in a roadside restroom, and his androgynous features land him in increasingly disturbing situations. You expect such bleakness from Rapp, but it’s the flashes of humor and optimism that exhilarate. Beneath a surface of disease, despair, and disfigurements, Rapp’s road trip is populated with good souls who, despite their circumstances, make significant sacrifices to help Punkzilla. Rapp constructs the book as a series of unsent letters to Peter and punctuates them with correspondence, some old enough to be heartbreakingly out of date, that Punkzilla has received from friends and family. This is devastating stuff, but breathtaking, too."

Otros títulos notables del autor:
. The Buffalo Tree (1993)
. Missing the Piano (1994)
. The Copper Elephant (1995)
. Little Chicago (1998)
. 33 Snowfish (2003)
. Under the Wolf, Under the Dog (2004)
. The Year of Endless Sorrows (2006)