Set in Rockaway, New York, and following a year in the lives of high school graduates and summer lifeguards Timmy, Chowderhead, Peg, and Alexandra, this novel depicts the cynicism, casual violence, and ritualized recklessness of unshockable youths
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Book Description:
"FROM ROCKAWAY is a sweet, wistful coming-of-age saga, a fragmentary view of teenagers vibrating between high school flings and adult responsibilities...less a novel than an album, a series of feisty, compassionate literary Polaroids." --Paul Rudnick, Los Angeles Times
About the Author:
Jill Eisenstadt is the author of the novels From Rockaway, Kiss Out, and Swell. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Vogue, Elle, Boston Review, New York Magazine, and BOMB. She lives in Brooklyn.
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- PublisherVintage Books
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0394757610
- ISBN 13 9780394757612
- BindingPaperback
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