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Do You Think This Is Strange?: A Novel
Aaron Cully Drake
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Description for Do You Think This Is Strange?: A Novel
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 21. Weight in Grams: 362.
Shortlisted for the 2016 Amazon.ca First Novel Award Longlisted for the 2016 Leacock Medal for Humour Writing Winner of an Independent Publishers Book Award (IPPY) "Outstanding debut." -- Publisher's Weekly Freddy has problems. Some of them are because he's autistic. Most of them are because he's a teenager. When he's seven years old, Freddy's mother walks him to the train station, sits him on a bench, kisses his forehead, and disappears from his life. In a few short days, everything changes. His father moves him across town, enrolls him in a different school, and takes him away ... Read more
Shortlisted for the 2016 Amazon.ca First Novel Award Longlisted for the 2016 Leacock Medal for Humour Writing Winner of an Independent Publishers Book Award (IPPY) "Outstanding debut." -- Publisher's Weekly Freddy has problems. Some of them are because he's autistic. Most of them are because he's a teenager. When he's seven years old, Freddy's mother walks him to the train station, sits him on a bench, kisses his forehead, and disappears from his life. In a few short days, everything changes. His father moves him across town, enrolls him in a different school, and takes him away ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Brindle & Glass
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Calgary, Canada
ISBN
9781927366387
SKU
V9781927366387
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99-15
About Aaron Cully Drake
Aaron Cully Drake has written for newspapers and magazines and is a former reporter and editor. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with his wife, son, and autistic daughter, all of whom keep advising him to shut up. Do You Think This Is Strange? is his first novel.
Reviews for Do You Think This Is Strange?: A Novel
"Consider this the antidote to The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Whereas Mark Haddon's 2003 novel, the most popular literary representation of autism to date, presented a barely functional savant, the 17-year-old at the heart of Aaron Cully Drake's debut is someone that the majority of autistic people might recognize ... Freddy is an authentically exasperating teenager. ... Read more