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Control # 1 2018060806
Control # Id 3 DLC
Date 5 20210520101002.0
Fixed Data 8 181228s2019 nyu 000 1 eng
LC Card 10    $a 2018060806
ISBN 20    $a9780374277789$q(hardcover)
Obsolete 39    $a324750$cTLC
Cat. Source 40    $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
Authen. Ctr. 42    $apcc
LC Call 50 00 $aPS3612.E68$bT63 2019
Dewey Class 82 00 $a813/.6$223
ME:Pers Name 100 $aLerner, Ben,$d1979-$eauthor.
Title 245 14 $aThe Topeka school /$cBen Lerner.
Edition 250    $aFirst edition.
Tag 264 264  1 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2019.
Phys Descrpt 300    $a282 pages ;$c24 cm
Tag 336 336    $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
Tag 337 337    $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
Tag 338 338    $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
Abstract 520    $a"Adam Gordon is a senior at Topeka High School, class of '97. His mother, Jane, is a famous feminist author; his father, Jonathan, is an expert at getting "lost boys" to open up. They both work at a psychiatric clinic that has attracted staff and patients from around the world. Adam is a renowned debater, expected to win a national championship before he heads to college. He is one of the cool kids, ready to fight or, better, freestyle about fighting if it keeps his peers from thinking of him as weak. Adam is also among the seniors who bring the loner Darren Eberheart--who is, unbeknownst to Adam, his father's patient--into the social scene, to disastrous effect. Deftly shifting perspectives and time periods, Ben Lerner's The Topeka School is the story of a family, its struggles and its strengths: Jane's reckoning with the legacy of an abusive father, Jonathan's marital transgressions, the challenge of raising a good son in a culture of toxic masculinity. It is also a riveting prehistory of the present: the collapse of public speech, the trolls and tyrants of the New Right, and the ongoing crisis of identity among white men." --Page 2 of cover.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aHigh school students$zKansas$zTopeka$vFiction.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aTeenage boys$vFiction.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aWomen authors$vFiction.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aPsychologists$vFiction.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aFamilies$zKansas$zTopeka$vFiction.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aNineteen nineties$vFiction.
Subj:Geog. 651  0 $aTopeka (Kan.)$vFiction.
Genre/Form 655  7 $aDomestic fiction.$2lcgft
Genre/Form 655  7 $aPsychological fiction.$2lcgft
Genre/Form 655  7 $aBildungsromans.$2lcgft