The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys

Set in Savannah, Georgia, in the early 1970s, this is a novel of the anarchic joy of...
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Author: Chris Fuhrman
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Language: English
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The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys by Fuhrman, Chris

The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys

¥6,448

The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys

¥6,448
Author: Chris Fuhrman
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Set in Savannah, Georgia, in the early 1970s, this is a novel of the anarchic joy of youth and encounters with the concerns of early adulthood. Francis Doyle, Tim Sullivan, and their three closest friends are altar boys at Blessed Heart Catholic Church and eighth-grade classmates at the parish school. They are also inveterate pranksters, artistic, and unimpressed by adult authority. When Sodom vs. Gomorrah '74, their collaborative comic book depicting Blessed Heart's nuns and priests gleefully breaking the seventh commandment, falls into the hands of the principal, the boys, certain that their parents will be informed, conspire to create an audacious diversion. Woven into the details of the boys' preparations for the stunt are touching, hilarious renderings of the school day routine and the initiatory rites of male adolescence, from the first serious kiss to the first serious hangover.

Author: Chris Fuhrman
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 09/28/2001
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.46h x 5.74w x 0.59d
ISBN: 9780820323381


Award: Book Sense Book of the Year Award - Nominee


Review Citation(s):
Booksense '76 Mar/Apr 2002 03/01/2002 pg. 1

About the Author
Chris Fuhrman grew up as a Catholic in Savannah, Georgia, where he was born in 1960. He received his master's degree from Columbia University. Fuhrman died of cancer in 1991 while working on the final revision of "The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys," his first and only novel.

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