Grendel's guide to love and war

Jugendbuch

• JF.E : Fremdsprachige Literatur : Englisch
• JE : Erzählungen und Romane : Belletristik für Kinder bis ca. 14 Jahre

Verfasser:
Kaplan, A. E.

Verfasser Angabe:
A. E. Kaplan

Sprache:
Englisch

• Englisch
• Party
• Posttraumatisches Stresssyndrom
• Familie
• Männliche Jugend
• Jugendbuch

Verlag:
Knopf

Erscheinungsort:
New York

Jahr:
2017

Umfang:
312 S.

Fußnote:
Text: Englisch

ISBN:
978-0-399-55554-1

Interessenskreise:
ab 12 Jahre

Inhalt:
Tom Grendel lives a quiet life - writing in his notebooks, mowing lawns for his elderly neighbors, and pining for Willow, a girl next door who rejects the "manic-pixie-dream" label. But when Willow's brother, Rex (the bro-iest bro ever to don a jockstrap), starts throwing wild parties, the idyllic senior citizens' community where they live is transformed into a war zone. Tom is rightfully pissed - his dad is an Iraq vet, and the noise from the parties triggers his PTSD - so he comes up with a plan to end the parties for good. But of course, it's not that simple.
One retaliation leads to another, and things quickly escalate out of control, driving Tom and Willow apart, even as the parties continue unabated. Add to that an angsty existential crisis born of selectively reading his sisters Philosophy 101 coursework, a botched break-in at an artisanal pig farm, and ten years of unresolved baggage stemming from his mother's death ... and the question isn't so much whether Tom Grendel will win the day and get the girl, but whether he'll survive intact.

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