Summary
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 inscrutabl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780743411943 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0743411943 |
| Author: | Abby Bardi |
| Publisher: | Atria Books |
| Imprint: | Atria Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 5 November 2002 |
| Weight: | 342g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm x 23mm |
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Sheri Holman author of The Dress Lodger The Book of Fred is one of the most engaging and original novels I’ve read in ages. Laugh-out-loud funny, deeply compassionate, frighteningly real, it is that rarest of all modern novels: a book that actually gives you hope.Howard Norman author of The Bird Artist and The Haunting of L. Please make a reservation on a long-distance train, just to read this novel! With rare insight, acerbic wit, and a bold storytelling voice, Abby Bardi brings a group of marginalized folks into the center of our imaginations. The Book of Fred is an edgy, hilarious family strory, and even manages quiet wisdom within all its wild incidents and general cacophony. Every character could easily speak Henry James’ wonderful sentence: “live all you can.” Abby Bardi writes with brilliant pathos – she’s got a dramatic and comic genius.Jennifer Weiner author of Good in Bed Quirky, timely, warmhearted, and wise, The Book of Fred offers an original take on a timeless question; what does “family” mean? Abby Bardi answers with the many small moments of grace that illuminate her tale, as the four unforgettable characters move through divorce, alienation, bureaucracy, and high school, breaking apart, falling down, and emerging stronger than ever.
About The Author
Abby Bardi
Abby Bardi, born and raised in Chicago, has worked as a singing waitress in Washington, D.C., an English teacher in Japan and England, a performer on England’s country-and-western circuit, and as a professor at Prince George’s Community College. Author of a column called “Sin of the Month” for The Takoma Voice, she is married with two children and lives in Ellicott City, Maryland.
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