Author: Joanne Proulx Year: 2007 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Young adult, Award winners, Fiction, Contemporary
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ISBNs: 9781569474877 1569474877 |
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"Stan," I said, and I said it kind of loud so of course he had to look up. "Tomorrow morning: 8:37. The red van with the out-of-state plates? You go head to head. You lose. You die."
After freakishly foretelling the death of a friend, Luke Hunter becomes big news in Stokum, his rank little pinprick of a hometown. Terrified, but pretending not to be, Luke holds everyone-the local media, his buddy Fang, the Polish widow next door-at arm's length as he lurches through a personal minefield studded with previously unconsidered existential ponderings, Christian fundamentalists, a missing teen's frantic mother, and a dream girl who isn't his.
Hormonal and funny, exhilarating and wise, Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet slyly explores the need to belong, the isolation of youth, and the powerful brew of fear and truth, music and noise, that plays inside us all.
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