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Into the great wide open

Two teens from the opposite side of the tracks fall in love. She is June, wealthy, with permissive parents. He is Kenny, socially inferior and his father beats him. They attend the same school and he is proud he saved her from a lesbian relationship. Unfortunately, he gets her pregnant. A first novel.

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  • "Een onzekere 17-jarige Amerikaanse jongen ontmoet in een kwetsbaar en eigenzinnig meisje een verwante ziel."
  • "Two teens from the opposite side of the tracks fall in love. She is June, wealthy, with permissive parents. He is Kenny, socially inferior and his father beats him. They attend the same school and he is proud he saved her from a lesbian relationship. Unfortunately, he gets her pregnant. A first novel."
  • "Both emotional orphans, teenagers Kenny and Junie are drawn to each other and into a love that is desperate, fragile, and their best hope to find a moment of self-sacrificing tenderness. In "Into the Great Wide Open", Kevin Canty renders the landscape of adolescence with a sensitivity, sensuality, and fierce lyricism that are nothing less than thrilling. Building on the success of A Stranger in This World, the widely praised collection of stories that was one of the most exciting literary debuts of recent years, Kevin Canty has written a blistering, unforgettable first novel. Set in the sprawl of suburbia, with its shattered families and hollow lives, Into the Great Wide Open is the story of two young people fleeing their families' emotional abandonment to find refuge in each other. Smart but scarred, Kenny Kolodny yearns to awake from the nightmare of his smashed-up family: his mother is in an institution and forever away; his father is an abusive alcoholic; his brother lives abroad. Seventeen and alone, he hangs on the periphery of his world, until he makes a passionate connection with the troubled, beautiful, fiercely independent Junie Williamson. Kenny discovers in their highly charged, intensely erotic relationship a reality--and a capacity for caring--he has not known before. In prose startling for its diamond-hard edges and bravura lyricism, Kevin Canty revives the heady carnival of adolescence, evoking its confusing emotional landscape and its heightened sensuality, too soon lost. Into the Great Wide Open is a haunting, mesmerizing novel by a writer of deep sensitivity and undeniable talent."
  • "Two teens from the opposite side of the tracks fall in love. She is June, wealthy, with permissive parents. He is Kenny, socially inferior and his father beats him. They attend the same school and he is proud he saved her from a lesbian relationship. Unfortunately, he gets her pregnant. A first novel."@en
  • "Both emotional orphans, teenagers Kenny and Junie are drawn to each other and into a love that is desperate, fragile, and their best hope to find a moment of self-sacrificing tenderness. In "Into the Great Wide Open", Kevin Canty renders the landscape of adolescence with a sensitivity, sensuality, and fierce lyricism that are nothing less than thrilling. Building on the success of A Stranger in This World, the widely praised collection of stories that was one of the most exciting literary debuts of recent years, Kevin Canty has written a blistering, unforgettable first novel. Set in the sprawl of suburbia, with its shattered families and hollow lives, Into the Great Wide Open is the story of two young people fleeing their families' emotional abandonment to find refuge in each other. Smart but scarred, Kenny Kolodny yearns to awake from the nightmare of his smashed-up family: his mother is in an institution and forever away; his father is an abusive alcoholic; his brother lives abroad. Seventeen and alone, he hangs on the periphery of his world, until he makes a passionate connection with the troubled, beautiful, fiercely independent Junie Williamson. Kenny discovers in their highly charged, intensely erotic relationship a reality--and a capacity for caring--he has not known before. In prose startling for its diamond-hard edges and bravura lyricism, Kevin Canty revives the heady carnival of adolescence, evoking its confusing emotional landscape and its heightened sensuality, too soon lost. Into the Great Wide Open is a haunting, mesmerizing novel by a writer of deep sensitivity and undeniable talent."@en
  • "Sie kommen aus 2 völlig unterschiedlichen Welten und doch verlieben sich die beiden 17-Jährigen ineinander. Kenny Kolodny ist ein Typ mit rauhem Charme, der schon viel durchmachen musste. Seine Mutter wurde, da sie manisch-depressiv ist, in einem Heim untergebracht. Jetzt lebt er allein mit seinem alkoholabhängigen Vater, da der Bruder mit seiner Pflegefamilie nach Australien gezogen ist. June Williamson ist eine junge Frau mit androgyner Ausstrahlung, in einem reichem Elternhaus aufgewachsen und vielleicht gerade darum so rebellisch, mit einem Hang zum Selbsthass. Die beiden versuchen, mit ihrer Liebe der Langeweile ihres Heimatortes zu entfliehen, verstricken sich aber bald in einem Spiel um Macht und Gewalt. Canty hat trotz seines kantigen Stils auf beeindruckend einfühlsame Weise den Zauber der 1. Liebe und das Lebensgefühl einer Generation eingefangen. Nach der Kurzgeschichten-Sammlung 'Mondschein und Aspirin' (BA 1/98) ist dies sein 1. Roman, für den es nur ein Wort gibt: Großartig! Schade, dass das Cover nicht ein wenig attraktiver ist, trotzdem kaufen."

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  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Love stories"
  • "Love stories"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Bildungsromans"
  • "Bildungsromans"@en
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl

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  • "Into the great wide open"
  • "Into the great wide open"@en
  • "W wielką otwartą przestrzeń"@pl
  • "Into The Great Wide Open"@en
  • "Into the great wide open : Roman"
  • "In het diepe"
  • "Kenny aime Junie"

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