The Jugheads
ISBN-13: 9781609805838
Contributor(s): J. R. Helton
Subject: Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post 1945)
Publisher Imprint: Seven Stories Press
Publication Date: 23-10-2014
Format: Paperback
Availability: In stock
£13.99
About the book
East Texas in the 1960s is not the worst place to have grown up, but for narrator Jake of The Jugheads, it was a minefield. Describing first jobs and first kisses, family vacations and family fights with unusual clarity and courage, Jake takes us through a wild ride of a coming of age tale, in an Ordinary American Family that is as violent and dysfunctional as they come. Despite his upwardly-mobile, working-class father Richard's draconian rule over the household, Jake manages to grow into his gifts as an artist and an athlete.