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Slouching towards Kalamazoo

by: De Vries, Peter, 1910-1993

Publication date: 1984

Topics: Teenage boys, Fathers and sons, Fathers and sons, Teenage boys

Publisher: Harmondsworth, Middlesex ; New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books

Collection: internetarchivebooks; americana

Contributor: John Gilmore

Language: English

Originally published: Boston : Little, Brown, 1983

Anthony Thrasher is a fifteen-year-old underachiever who simply cannot grasp the mundane realities of the eighth grade. While under the tutelage of his free-spirited teacher Miss Maggie Doubloon (she has the audacity to assign The Scarlet Letter to her class), Tony suddenly finds himself a father. Miss Doubloon leaves town wearing a large "A+" emblazoned on her T-shirt and returns to her hometown of Kalamazoo. Following Maggie and their illegitimate son, Ahab, Tony meet Bubbles Breedlove -- Ahab's buxom, virginal nursemaid -- and falls madly in love with her