{"subjects": ["Fiction, psychological", "New zealand, fiction", "College students", "Fiction", "Youth", "Apathy", "Nihilism"], "key": "/works/OL8990141W", "title": "The Lazy Boys", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL3123995A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [871418], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"Richey Sauer is eighteen years old, beginning his first year at college to escape the dead end of middle-class, small-town life in Timaru, New Zealand. But in a landscape where redemption is a fiction and emotion is cliche, his intense internal world threatens to spill over. After an out-of-control dorm party Richey finds himself in front of a disciplinary committee on a sexual harassment charge for something he can't - or won't - remember. Dropping out of school before he's thrown out, he and his housemates Matt, Nick, and Ursula begin a freefall that forces Richey to face his most destructive desires.\"--BOOK JACKET."}, "latest_revision": 6, "revision": 6, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T23:38:47.098343"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-07-16T14:56:31.849436"}}