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Washington Square Press, 2001. Ex-Library. Trade Paperback. Very Good. GREAT BOOK! NO SPINE CREASES & VERY MILD WEAR ON COVER. A FEW LIBRARY STAMPS, NO MARKS IN TEXT. Description: Filled with soulful humor and quiet pathos, Abby Bardi's boldly drawn first novel marks the debut of a joyfully talented chronicler of the quest for connection in contemporary life. Mary Fred Anderson, raised in an isolated fundamentalist sect whose primary obsessions seem to involve an imminent Apocalypse and the propagation of the name "Fred," is hardly your average fifteen-year-old. She has never watched TV, been to a supermarket, or even read much of anything beyond the inscrutable dogma laid out by the prophet Fred. But this is all before Mary Fred's whole world tilts irrevocably on its axis: before her brothers, Fred and Freddie, take sick and pass on to the place the Reverend Thigpen calls "the World Beyond"; before Mama and Papa are escorted from the Fredian Outpost in police…
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by Abby Bardi
Bardi's soulful, skillfully rendered first novel, already a book club and critics' favorite, marks the debut of a joyfully talented chronicler. With a knack for laying bare the absurdities of daily life, this novel captures all the ambivalence and uncertainty at the heart of an unforgettable girl named Mary Fred Anderson.
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When Little Freddie took sick, I knew things would change, and change fast.
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- Title The Book of Fred
- Author Abby Bardi
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Atria Books, New York
- Date September 24, 2002
- ISBN 9780743411943 / 0743411943
- Weight 0.63 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 8.36 x 5.34 x 0.84 in (21.23 x 13.56 x 2.13 cm)
- Reading level 1080
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Themes
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Suburban life, Teenage girls
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001034025
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Booksense '76 Sep/Oct 2002, 09/01/2002, Page 1
- Kliatt, 03/01/2003, Page 19
- Voice of Youth Advocates, 10/01/2002, Page 268
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