By turns funny, romantic, erotic, and sad, Cody brilliantly recreates the landscape of late adolescence, when friendships seem eternal and loves reincarnate. Set in Arkansas but first published in Amsterdam, this novel quickly won praise from reviewers and readers across Europe and North America. So beautiful, brave, and ahead of its time that William S. Burroughs was an early fan, Cody remains remarkably current and continues to be unique in coming-of-age literature. A haunting vision of young friendship shattered by an outrageously cruel world, the novel aches with adolescent first loves. It is tender, funny, and true.

A sense of life, the search for identity, intellectual militancy, the ambiguity of human relationships, unsatisfied desire, and weakness in facing existence are just some of the facets of life that the author evokes with precision.

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