{"product_id":"9780060502515","title":"King of the Mild Frontier","description":"By: Chris Crutcher     \u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eALA Best\u003cbr\u003eFiction for Young Adults * \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNew York\u003cbr\u003ePublic Library Books for the Teen Age\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA riveting,\u003cbr\u003escorching—and hilarious—autobiography by the award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eStaying Fat for Sarah Byrnes\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDeadline\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom trying to impress a member of the girls’\u003cbr\u003esoftball team (with disastrous dental results) to enduring the humiliation of\u003cbr\u003ehis high school athletic club initiation (olives and oysters play unforgettable\u003cbr\u003eroles), Chris Crutcher’s memoir of the tricky road to adulthood is candid,\u003cbr\u003edisarming, laugh-out-loud funny, relevant, and never less than riveting.\u003cbr\u003eHe\u003cbr\u003evividly describes a temper that was always waiting to trip him up even as it\u003cbr\u003esustained him through some of the most memorable mishaps any child has\u003cbr\u003esurvived. And how did this guy (he lifted his brother’s homework through the\u003cbr\u003eentire tenth grade) ever become a writer, not to mention the author of fourteen\u003cbr\u003ecritically acclaimed books for young people?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe frontier may be mild, but the book is not.\u003cbr\u003eFans of Tara Westover’s \u003cem\u003eEducated\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cbr\u003eJack Gantos’s \u003cem\u003eHole in My Life\u003c\/em\u003e, and\u003cbr\u003eWalter Dean Myers’s \u003cem\u003eBad Boy\u003c\/em\u003e will\u003cbr\u003elaugh, will cry, and will remember.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Funny, bittersweet and brutally honest. Readers\u003cbr\u003ewill clasp this hard-to-put-down book to their hearts even as they laugh\u003cbr\u003esympathetically.”—\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Greenwillow Books","offers":[{"title":"US - Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":48094206329059,"sku":"DTRHCUS-9780060502515","price":68.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9780060502515.jpg?v=1770660321","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/zh\/products\/9780060502515","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}