Dead Kennedys
by Scott Reardon
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Pub Date 8 Jun 2021 | Archive Date 15 Nov 2021
Description
Read the book that NetGalley readers are finding so controversial.
Heartbreaking, savagely funny, Dead Kennedys is a book of dissent. It's the modern-day story of John Kennedy, 17-year-old member of the famous Kennedy family, who after a shattering tragedy goes on a reckless binge through Washington DC he may not survive.
In his third novel, Scott Reardon presents a wise-cracking antihero—unfiltered, beaten by life and unwilling to bow to modern pieties.
"Confronting...compelling...the child forgotten in the divorce of Brett Easton Ellis and J.D. Salinger.”—Tobias Carlisle
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781733240444 |
| PRICE | US$17.99 (USD) |
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Featured Reviews
Neil P, Educator
From the first words of this book I was drawn in-- the voice is that strong. It reminds me of my first time reading The Catcher in the Rye, when I was much, much younger. "Can he really say that?" I kept asking, and yet the voice was so compelling that I believed everything John said.
There's a conceit here that made me a bit uncomfortable-- that "John Kennedy" and his brother Joe are somehow offspring of the famous Kennedy clan. I don't think the book needs that hook, because the characters are so strong and the voice so compelling that I would have read it without that overlay. Of coursed that would mean a different title...
I can't rave enough about this book, which I think captures the zeitgeist in the same way that Catcher did, with many of the same conceits (alienated prep school boy on a wild weekend).
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