The Breaks by Richard Price

The Breaks by Richard Price

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The Breaks by Richard Price

From the author of Clockers and Lush Life comes this "glorious, gritty comedy" (The New Yorker) Richard Price's The Breaks.

Peter Keller, first college grad from a working-class Yonkers family, thought he was on the road to success. Until no law school wanted him. As he watches his friends advance into promising careers, he jumps from job to job---mail clerk, phone solicitor, stand-up comic---until he breaks down and starts phoning in bomb threats on his own house. He's going to have to work hard to change the pattern of self-sabotage that has defined most of his life. And taking that job at his alma mater as a teacher of freshman comp and starting an affair with a violently psychotic ex-wife of a colleague probably won't help matters. Richard Price's brilliant comic novel is a classic tale of a young man trying to find his place in the world.

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ISBN 13 9780312566517
ISBN 10 0312566514
Title The Breaks
Author Richard Price
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Picador USA
Year published 2011-06-21
Number of pages 480
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.