I don't like this new exposure I've been getting. SEXY LADY: Oh, but lately it's been heating up again. I just call him Crazy Glue.ĬRAZY GLUE: Boring! His life is boring. And finally, there's the kid who Krazy Glued the fingers of his left hand together. Well, here she is, in my head! She's very sympathetic. You always wondered what happened to her. Then there's Aunt Bee-yep, the Aunt Bee from the old Andy Griffith Show. There's also Sexy Lady, who's supposed to just tell me I'm hot all the time. I call him FBG with a mustache, for short. But maybe you'll become one of the outspoken ones, the ones with a personality, like the fat bald guy with a mustache who sits in the back of the theater writing movie reviews. You get to say, "Uh-oh," and whisper loudly, "Isn't that a shame." You can even cry.
If you are part of the laugh track, you get to do more than laugh. Maybe you'll just be part of my laugh track, a body filling one of the seats in my theater but having no singular voice. They're building a new one over on Clement. There aren't nearly enough windows, but it's an old school. Okay, I know this classroom is pretty drab. This is my honors English class we're in right now. Everyone thinks his or her life is movie worthy. You can get yourself on TV for doing almost anything, the stupider the better. Anyway, I don't think I'm the only fifteen-year-old who does this. I talk to them, and yeah, they talk to me, but I know they aren't really there. Of all my novels but most especially this one:īrian Nolan, Barbara Kouts, and Karen GroveĮVER SINCE the fifth grade, I've had this imaginary audience in my head who follow me around and watch me like I'm the star in a movie. To the three people most involved in the creation Manufactured in the United States of America Karen Grove, Barbara Kouts, Jen Haller, and Kathy Dawson.įor extra readings again and again, and for much support:īrian Nolan, Adrienne Nolan, Rachael Potter, and Barbara Kouts. Lee Doty, Caroline Kahler, Ann Martyn, Ellen Groff, and Jane Hundley.įor professional advice and criticism of the novel in its many, many, many stages: Services, and psychological issues in this novel: Many thanks and much admiration to the following peopleįor professional advice concerning legal matters, child protection and social Reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd. Ten lines from The Oresteian Trology: Agamemnon, The Choephori, The Eumenidesīy Aeschylus translated by Philip Vellacott (Penguin Classics, 1956).Ĭopyright © Philip Vellacott, 1956. Summary: Fifteen-year-old loner Jason struggles to hide his father'sĭeclining mental condition after his mother's death, but when his fatherĭisappears he must confide in the other members of a therapy group he LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Harcourt is an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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