I just finished this. It got some posts on another list that
spiked my curiousity so I gave it a shot. Very rare for me to
buy a new hardcover, but Amazon had it at about seven bucks
off cover if I recall correctly.
It's sort of a Holden-Caulfield-at-Columbine-High novel,
about a cynical high school boy taking heat for a high school
massacre. It's funny, not necessarily
"scabrously" so, as the front cover blurb states. It's heavy
into satire, which I can pretty much take or leave nowadays.
My feeling is that satirizing society is about as hard as
shooting fish in a barrel.
Nevertheless it was still cute.
The book got some kind of strange award that I've never heard
of called the Man Booker Prize for 2003.
miker
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