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Article: Adam Rapp: Punkzilla.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
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- The Horn Book Magazine
- Article date:
- May 1, 2009
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Adam Rapp Punkzilla
244 pp. Candlewick 5/09 ISBN 978-0-7636-3031-7 $16.99 g
(High School)
Nobody writes about the disposable, marginalized youth of America with the same sense of uncomfortable, voyeuristic fascination as Adam Rapp, though his novels, featuring characters ill-equipped to deal with life's problems, can feel gratuitously brutal. Still, with several years having passed since the publication of his last YA novel (Under the Wolf, Under the Dog, rev. 10/05), fans will be eager to read this new one--and with good reason. Rapp's quirky idiomatic expressions, striking word choices, and stream-of-consciousness prose style are ample ...