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Yates Paul, His Grand Flights, His Tootings [electronic resource]

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James Baker Hall's blackly comic coming-of-age novel has been denied, by unfortunate circumstances surrounding its original 1964 publication, its rightful place alongside classics such as Catcher in the Rye and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in the canon of essential late-twentieth-century American fiction. Set in Lexington, Kentucky, the story unfolds through the eyes of thirteen-year-old Yates Paul. He becomes consumed with revelations about his inattentive father's loneliness, his grandmother's stormy relationship with his boisterous alcoholic uncle, and the frustration of being the best

Title Yates Paul, His Grand Flights, His Tootings [electronic resource] / James Baker Hall
with a foreword by Ed McClanahan.
Publisher Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky
Creation Date 2002
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
English
Content Cover
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
More Grand Flights! More Tootings!
YATES WAS A FRAIL LITTLE BOY
YATES SPENT
DURING THE SUMMER
THE AFTERNOONS
FROM FIVE-THIRTY
YATES RAN AWAY
LOOK,"" YATES SAID
IN THE MIDDLE
YATES WENT TO WORK
LATER THAT SAME NIGHT
SEVERAL DAYS LATER
YATES WAS UP AT SIX
WHEN THEY GOT BACK
Extent 1 online resource (284 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2002
National Library system number 997010716537905171
MARC RECORDS
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