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Garden State

Rick Moody

19921 pagesabout 5–10 minutes
1992
first published
  • 1997Little, Brown · 212 pages · ENGISBN 9780316557634
  • 1992Pushcart Pr · 1 pages · ENGISBN 9780916366735
  • 1993Pushcart Pr · 212 pages · ENGISBN 9780916366858
  • 2002Faber and Faber · 224 pagesISBN 9780571200610
  • 2001Piper · 224 pagesISBN 9783492218115

The first novel by the acclaimed author of The Ice Storm and Purple America traces a group of friends in Haledon, New Jersey, through one spring in their rocky passage toward adulthood. They are out of school, trying to start a band, trying to find work - looking for something to do in the degraded terrain of their suburban hometown. Garden State captures the lyricism of stark lives in an intense and unforgettable story of friendship and betrayal. With a new preface by the author.

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