|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
List Price: $13.00Amazon.com's Price: $9.36 You Save: $3.64 (28%)as of 03/19/2010 10:31 EDT
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping.
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781569474983
ISBN: 1569474982
Label: Soho Press
Manufacturer: Soho Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: May 01, 2008
Publisher: Soho Press
Studio: Soho Press
Features:- ISBN13: 9781569474983
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Related Items:
Alternate Versions: Click to Display
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
“Funny, bewitching, observant.”—The Oregonian
“Hits all the frets of a powerful story: sharp-witted dialogue, vivid characters, insight into medical challenges and prose that snaps like well-placed plucks of guitar strings. . . . I hold up my lighter and turn it full-flame for [Garth] Stein’s latest work. Encore!”—The Seattle Times
“Compelling.”—Seattle Post-Intelligencer
“Stein handles the many narrative elements deftly.”—Seattle Weekly
“An engrossing family drama.”—Publishers Weekly
Evan had a hit single, but that was ten years ago. Thirty-one now, he’s drifting, playing in a local band and teaching middle-aged men to coax music from an electric guitar.
Beset at a young age with a life-threatening form of epilepsy, he’s kept his condition a secret. But his deepest secret is that he got his high school sweetheart pregnant. Then her conservative parents whisked her out of Seattle and out of Evan’s life.
Now, fourteen years later, he experiences unplanned parenthood when he undertakes to raise the resentful teenage son he’s never known.
Off beat and disarming, How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets portrays a contemporary American family with unfailing honesty.
Garth Stein, a former documentary filmmaker, was co-producer of an Academy Award-winning short film. How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets is his second novel; his first, Raven Stole the Moon, was published by Pocket Books. His third novel, The Art of Racing in the Rain, will be published by HarperCollins in 2008 and is being translated around the world. He lives in Seattle with his wife and children.
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
Great read. I don't think anything this man writes could be boring. He just knows how to tell a good story. I highly recommend it, as well as his other novel "Racing in the Rain." That one I couldn't put down - read it in 3 days and my husband read it in 2 days.
Rating: -
Having read The Art of Racing in the Rain, I was interested in reading more of Garth Stein's work. How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets is also an engaging read. Evan Wallace intermittently resists and embraces an emotional growth process that won't be ignored. He is a likeable, fallible character who has much to come to terms with. Sometimes I questioned the author's direction, but never his commitment to tell his tale with the focus he wants at its core.
Rating:  -
Ordered this book on impulse-haven't read any of Stein's other books and most often choose books with female main characters. Couldn't put it down. It was kind of a twisted version of an every day story with a tragic premise and quirky, likable characters. Had to find out if Evan would grow up, come around, "be a man". It's an easy read but left me genuinely happy and totally satisfied.
Rating: -
I read The Art of Racing and immediately looked for something else by this writer. I downloaded the sample of How Evan Broke his Head and was hooked within a few pages. I love Mr. Stein's writing style and I loved both books and cannot wait to read his next one. I am definately a fan.
Rating: -
I enjoyed "The Art of Racing in the Rain" so much that I wanted to read more by the same author. Stein again writes from a somewhat quirky perspective. The character Evan was likable and it was interesting to read his fictional look at Seattle's Indie music scene. One of the things I like about Stein is that he does not follow a formula. His originality and somewhat offbeat sense of humor make this a great book to read on a cool autumn afternoon (although I read it in my hammock in the summer ... Read More
|
|
|
|
