{"product_id":"slouching-towards-kalamazoo-peter-de-vries-9780226143897","title":"Slouching Towards Kalamazoo","description":"It is 1963 in an unnamed town in North Dakota, and Anthony Thrasher is languishing for a second year in eighth grade. Prematurely sophisticated, young Anthony spends too much time reading Joyce, Eliot, and Dylan Thomas but not enough time studying the War of 1812 or obtuse triangles. A tutor is hired, and this \"modern Hester Prynne\" offers Anthony lessons that ultimately free him from eighth grade and situate her on the cusp of the American sexual revolution. Anthony's restless adolescent voice is perfectly suited to De Vries's blend of erudite wit and silliness--not to mention his fascination with both language and female anatomy--and it propels \u003ci\u003eSlouching Towards Kalamazoo\u003c\/i\u003e through theological debates and quandaries both dermatological and ethical, while soaring on the De Vriesian hallmark of scrambling conventional wisdom for comic effect. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter De Vries\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226143899\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226143897\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 246\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.56d","brand":"Peter De Vries","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43990111944959,"sku":"9780226143897","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1e2fe794-2fdf-43ea-bd4b-ce9cba078dc1.jpg?v=1683303061","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/slouching-towards-kalamazoo-peter-de-vries-9780226143897","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}