Random House Publishing Group, 2005. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. An ex-library book and may have standard library stamps and/or stickers. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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In a funny, poignant, wonderfully original debut novel, the author of the acclaimed short-story collection Trouble with Girls weaves a beguiling tale of fathers and sons, sons and lovers...and one unforgettable summer in a young man's life--somewhere between a past he doesn't understand and a future he's not ready to live.... ALTERNATIVE ATLANTAFor thirty-year-old Gerald Brinkman, life in Atlanta in the year 1996--the summer of the Olympics--doesn't feel half bad. Writing reviews of basement rock bands for an alternative paper, Gerald has carefully avoided getting a real job, while watching his old friends from grad school start careers, marriages, and affairs--often with each other. But in this one life-changing summer, something is about to happen that will shake Gerald out of his complacency forever. Gerald's father, his brilliant, vagabond, and utterly unhelpful father, wants to come and stay with him "for a while." Ever since childhood, Gerald has tried to bury his relationship with his father under a life of carefully crafted wrong turns. And now Paul Brinkman has shown up with trash bags full of belongings, a medical crisis, and an unbearable confession to make. But Gerald knows one thing for sure: He doesn't want to hear it. Try as he might to stop it, the future is bearing down on him. A job is being dangled in New York. A secret from his past is waiting to be revealed. An ex-girlfriend is suddenly sending mixed signals. And in one moment in one summer in the city of Atlanta, everything is about to change forever. When it does, Gerald is going to have a whole new vision of who he is, who his father and friends are, and what he must do next.An exhilarating and touching novel about family and flirtations, growing up and letting go, Alternative Atlanta brilliantly captures a time of life when everything seems possible and impossible at the same time. It is a work of dazzling storytelling from a writer of immense gifts.From the Hardcover edition.

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Seller: ThriftBooks (US)
Seller's Inventory #: G038533852XI3N10
Title: Alternative Atlanta
Author: Marshall Boswell
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Quantity Available: 1
ISBN 10: 038533852X
ISBN 13: 9780385338523
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Place of Publication: New York, New York, U.s.a.
Date Published: 2005

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