Thumbsucker

Author: Walter Kirn
Edition: 1st
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0385497091

Thumbsucker: A Novel

This eighties-centric, Ritalin-fueled, pitch-perfect comic novel by a writer to watch brings energy and originality to the classic Midwestern coming-of-age story. Get Thumbsucker literature books for free.
eet Justin Cobb, "the King Kong of oral obsessives" (as his dentist dubs him) and the most appealingly bright and screwed-up fictional adolescent since Holden Caulfield donned his hunter's cap. For years, no remedy--not orthodontia, not the escalating threats of his father, Mike, a washed-out linebacker turned sporting goods entrepreneur, not the noxious cayenne pepper-based Suk-No-Mor--can cure Justin's thumbsucking habit.Then a course of hypnosis seemingly does the trick, but true to the conservation of neurotic energy, the problem doesn't so much disappear as relocate. Sex, substance Check Thumbsucker our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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