Frank Vaughn Killed By His Mom
Indies United Publishing House, LLC
ISBN13:
9781644563021
$14.93
A disturbing Odyssey across America. It's summer, 1965, school's out and Butch's birthday is in a few weeks. Perfect; three months of freeze tag, hide and seek and riding his bike way past dark. Well, maybe not completely perfect - Frank Vaughn, a classmate, is beaten to death by his crazy mother for leaving a report card at school. On top of that, Dad is touchier than ever and Mom sadder, so best to hide out next door with his best friend Tommy reading X-Men and hoping for that birthday GI Joe. But in one night, Butch's summer explodes and he's now riding across a turbulent and changing Dixie in a white Rambler station wagon, at the mercy of a manic depressive and wildly violent Dad. Like a crewman on Ulysses' ship, Butch encounters a one-eyed evil grandfather, a 12-year-old Siren, the lotus-eaters of Alabama? and Frank Vaughn. If Butch ever sees his beloved sister, Cindy, again, it'll be a miracle. If he's alive at the end of the summer, it'll be a bigger one. A dark version of "The Wonder Years," Frank Vaughn Killed by his Mom is "The Great Santini" written by Homer, careening through a coarse world of racism, adultery, abandonment, and even the occasional sliver of hope.
- | Author: D. Krauss
- | Publisher: Indies United Publishing House, LLC
- | Publication Date: June 05, 2021
- | Number of Pages: 326 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1644563029
- | ISBN-13: 9781644563021
- Author:
- D. Krauss
- Publisher:
- Indies United Publishing House, LLC
- Publication Date:
- June 05, 2021
- Number of pages:
- 326 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1644563029
- ISBN-13:
- 9781644563021