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Joe Speedboat Paperback - 2010

by Tommy Wieringa; Sam Garrett (Translator)

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A bestseller in Holland, "Joe Speedboat" is a sparkling coming-of-age novel in which the inhabitants of a sleepy rural town are awakened by the arrival of a kinetic young visionary, Joe Speedboat.

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From the publisher

"A brilliant coming-of-age story with an outlandish twist . . . this wonderfully weird novel is not one to miss." --Publishers Weekly, starred review

After a farming accident plunges him into a coma for six months, Frankie Hermans wakes up to discover that he's paralyzed and mute. Bound to a wheelchair, Frankie struggles to adjust to a life where he must rely on others to complete even the simplest tasks. The only body part he can control is his right arm, which he uses obsessively to record the details of daily life in his town in Holland.

But when he meets Joe--a boy who blazed into his sleepy rural town like a meteor while Frankie slept--everything changes. Joe is a centrifugal force, both magician and daredevil, and he alone sees potential strength in Frankie's handicaps. With Joe's help, Frankie's arm will be used for more than just writing: as a champion arm-wrestler, Frankie will be powerful enough to win back his friends, and maybe even woo P.J., the girl who has them all in a tailspin . . .

From the award-winning author of These are the Names, Joe Speedboat is "[an] offbeat story of a group of boys searching for meaning . . .This work conjures John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany but with a lighter touch" (Library Journal).

"Witty, thoughtful and surprisingly tender." --The Independent

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  • Title Joe Speedboat
  • Author Tommy Wieringa; Sam Garrett (Translator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Uncorrected Proo
  • Pages 328
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Grove Press, Black Cat, NY
  • Publication date 2010-04-08
  • ISBN 9780802170729 / 0802170722
  • Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.56 x 5.18 x 0.91 in (21.74 x 13.16 x 2.31 cm)
  • Age range 13 to UP years
  • Grade levels 8 - UP
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Scandinavian
    • Topical: Coming of Age
  • Category Young Adult Fiction
  • Library of Congress subjects Male friendship, Bildungsromans
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • Booklist, 03/01/2010, Page 48
  • Library Journal, 04/15/2010, Page 77
  • Publishers Weekly, 02/08/2010, Page 28

About the author

Tommy Wieringa was born in 1967 and grew up partly in the Netherlands and in Aruba. He began his writing career with travel stories and journalism and is the author of two previous novels, one of which was awarded Holland's Halewijn prize and nominated for the AKO Literature Prize. This is his first novel to be published in English.

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