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Bibligraphic Information
- Title
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Hell of a book : or the altogether factual, Wholly Bona Fide story of a big dreams, hard luck, American-Made Mad Kid
- Author
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Mott, Jason, author.
- Publisher:
- Dutton,
- Pub date:
- [2021]
- Physical desc:
- 319 pages ;
- ISBN:
- 9780593330968
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Copy info:
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1 copy available in
Shelved by call number, A-L 4th Floor, N-Z 3rd Floor.
1 copy total in all locations.
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Holdings
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PS3613 .O8444 H45 2021
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Shelved by call number, A-L 4th Floor, N-Z 3rd Floor
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Hell of a book : or the altogether factual, Wholly Bona Fide story of a big dreams, hard luck, American-Made Mad Kid
Mott, Jason, author.
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Hell of a book : or the altogether factual, Wholly Bona Fide story of a big dreams, hard luck, American-Made Mad Kid
Mott, Jason, author.
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ISBN:
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9780593330968
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ISBN:
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059333096X
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ISBN:
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9780593185865
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ISBN:
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0593185862
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ISBN:
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(ISBN invalid)9780593330999
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Personal Author:
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Mott, Jason, author.
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Title:
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Hell of a book : or the altogether factual, Wholly Bona Fide story of a big dreams, hard luck, American-Made Mad Kid / Jason Mott.
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Publication info:
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[New York] : Dutton, [2021]
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Copyright notice:
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©2021
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Physical descrip:
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319 pages ; 22 cm
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Summary:
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In Jason Mott's Hell of a Book, a Black author sets out on a cross-country publicity tour to promote his bestselling novel. That storyline drives Hell of a Book and is the scaffolding of something much larger and urgent: since Mott's novel also tells the story of Soot, a young Black boy living in a rural town in the recent past, and The Kid, a possibly imaginary child who appears to the author on his tour. As these characters' stories build and build and converge, they astonish. For while this heartbreaking and magical book entertains and is at once about family, love of parents and children, art and money, it's also about the nation's reckoning with a tragic police shooting playing over and over again on the news. And with what it can mean to be Black in America. Who has been killed? Who is The Kid? Will the author finish his book tour, and what kind of world will he leave behind? Unforgettably told, with characters who burn into your mind and an electrifying plot ideal for book club discussion, Hell of a Book is the novel Mott has been writing in his head for the last ten years. And in its final twists it truly becomes its title.
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Summary:
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Soot, a young Black boy, lives in a rural town in the recent past. The Kid, a possibly imaginary child appears to a Black author on a cross-country publicity tour to promote his bestselling novel. As their stories build and converge, they astonish. As the nation reckons with a tragic police shooting playing over and over again on the news, what it can mean to be Black in America? Who has been killed? Who is The Kid? Will the author finish his book tour, and what kind of world will he leave behind? -- adapted from jacket
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Subject term:
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African Americans--Fiction.
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Fictitious characters--Fiction.
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Authors--Fiction.
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Book industries and trade--Fiction.
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Racism--Fiction.
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Police--Fiction.
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Murder--Fiction.
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Genre:
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Novels. fast (OCoLC)fst01921742
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Fiction. fast (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Fiction. lcgft
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Genre:
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Novels. lcgft
