The Lesser Blessed Van Camp RichardPaperback
The Lesser Blessed Van Camp RichardPaperback The 20th-anniversary edition of Richard Van Camp's best-selling coming-of-age story, with a new introduction and story by the authorLarry is a Dogrib…
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The Lesser Blessed Van Camp RichardPaperback
The 20th-anniversary edition of Richard Van Camp's best-selling coming-of-age story, with a new introduction and story by the authorLarry is a Dogrib Indian growing up in the small northern town of Fort Simmer. At sixteen, he loves Iron Maiden, the North and Juliet Hope, the high school "tramp."In this powerful and very funny first novel, Richard Van Camp gives us one of the most original teenage characters in Canadian fiction. His tongue, his hallucinations and his fantasies are hotter than the center of the sun.
His past holds many terrors: an abusive father, blackouts from sniffing gasoline, an accident that killed several of his cousins, and he's now being hunted and haunted by a pack of blue monkeys. Skinny as spaghetti, nervy and self-deprecating, Larry is an appealing mixture of bravado and vulnerability. But through his new friendship with Johnny, a Metis who