Lawn boy : a novel / Jonathan Evison.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781616202620
- Physical Description: 312 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018.
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Subject: | Mexican Americans > Social conditions > Fiction. Working class > Social aspects > Fiction. American Dream > Fiction. |
Genre: | Bildungsromans. |
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- 15 of 17 copies available at Sitka.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Elkford Public Library. (Show preferred library)
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Elkford Public Library | FC EVI (Text) | 35170000393611 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Burns Lake Public Library | AF EVI (Text) | 35198000655010 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Castlegar Public Library | FIC EVI (Text) | 35146002091346 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Fernie Heritage Library | FIC EVI (Text) | 35136000525882 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Headingley Municipal Library | EVI (Text) | 36440000271330 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Nelson Public Library | F EVI (Text) | 3514830028366 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-05-21 |
Pemberton and District Public Library | F EVI (Text) | 31894000509157 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Pender Island Public Library | EVI (Text)
Format: Hardcover |
33126000279202 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Pender Island Public Library | VAN1701793621586 (Text) | BPI1701793621586 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | On order | - |
Salmo Public Library | FIC EVI (Text) | 35163000154224 | Adult Fiction (hardback or trade paperback) | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
"Mike Muänoz is a young Mexican American not too many years out of high school--and just fired from his latest gig as a lawn boy on a landscaping crew. Though he tries time and again to get his foot on the first rung of that ladder to success, he can't seem to get a break. But then things start to change for Mike, and after a raucous, jarring, and challenging trip, he finds he can finally see the future and his place in it"-- - Baker & Taylor
Faced with a life of menial prospects in the years after high school, Mike Muänoz, a young Mexican-American, attempts over and over to change his life for the better and achieve the American dream, only to be stymied by social-class distinctions and cultural discrimination. - Baker & Taylor
Faced by a life of menial prospects in the years after high school, Mike Muñoz, a young Mexican-American, attempts over and over to change his life for the better and achieve the American dream, only to be stymied by social-class distinctions and cultural discrimination. By the author ofThe Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving . - Workman Press.Winner of the Alex Award
'Jonathan Evison's voice is pure magic. In Lawn Boy, at once a vibrant coming-of-age novel and a sharp social commentary on class, Evison offers a painfully honest portrait of one young man's struggle to overcome the hand he's been dealt in life and reach for his dreams. It's a journey you won't want to miss, with an ending you won't forget.'
'Kristin Hannah, author of The Nightingale
For Mike Muñoz, a young Chicano living in Washington State, life has been a whole lot of waiting for something to happen. Not too many years out of high school and still doing menial work'and just fired from his latest gig as a lawn boy on a landscaping crew'he knows that he's got to be the one to shake things up if he's ever going to change his life. But how?
In this funny, angry, touching, and ultimately deeply inspiring novel, bestselling author Jonathan Evison takes the reader into the heart and mind of a young man on a journey to discover himself, a search to find the secret to achieving the American dream of happiness and prosperity. That's the birthright for all Americans, isn't it? If so, then what is Mike Muñoz's problem? Though he tries time and again to get his foot on the first rung of that ladder to success, he can't seem to get a break. But then things start to change for Mike, and after a raucous, jarring, and challenging trip, he finds he can finally see the future and his place in it. And it's looking really good.
Lawn Boy is an important, entertaining, and completely winning novel about social class distinctions, about overcoming cultural discrimination, and about standing up for oneself.