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Grab bag

Grab bag

by Derek McCormack

Fiction, generalGay teenagersFictionCarnivalsYoung men
4.0
Open Library
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"Dark Rides, the first book in Grab Bag, tells the story of Derek, a gay teenager looking for love in carnivals, honky tonks, and hospitals. It's the 1950s. Derek finds solace only in the music of Hank Williams." "Wish Book, the second book in Grab Bag, takes place in a different time: the Great Depression. A small city swarms with con men. Hucksters peddle poisonous patent medicines. Spiritualists bilk the bereaved. Characters converge on a downtown department store, where they clash and connect like cogs in a Rube Goldberg contraption."--BOOK JACKET.

Themes & subjects

Fiction, generalGay teenagersFictionCarnivalsYoung men

Author

Derek McCormack

Pages

203

Read time

≈ 5h

Editions

3

Language

English

Publisher

Akashic Books

ISBN

9781617752537

Where to buy

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