
The Home
One Year in a Children's Institution
L. Wade Powers(Author)
Lawrence Wade Powers (Publisher)
Published on 3. December 2019
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-1-64388-252-9 (ISBN)
Description
What is family and what is a home? The answers are as varied as the characters of The Home. In the mid 1950s, teenage culture emerges, rock 'n roll arrives, and Walt, a naive, introverted thirteen-year old, enters an institution for children of working mothers and foster home transfers. The dormitory environment accelerates the adolescent development of the residents and exaggerates their social interactions as group loyalty challenges individual integrity. Walt adapts and survives in a semi-isolated world of triumphs and tragedies, including communal retaliation, sexual awakening, junior high exploits, and a growing awareness of a nostalgic-laden future.
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Language
English
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
737 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-64388-252-9 (9781643882529)
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L. WADE POWERS has published five previous novels-The Home (2019), The Party House (2019), New Albion Sunset (2020), The Sagebrush Hotel Tontine (2021), SurrogaCity (2022), and four collections of short fiction, Falling in Love and Other Misadventures (2019), Confronting the Boundaries (2020), The Gristmill Mistress (2023), and The Time Bubble and Other Distortions of Reality (2024). A retired professor of natural sciences, Larry lives in Eastern Oregon. He is a member of the Northwest Independent Writers Association (NIWA).For further information about the author and his works, please visit his website atwww.lwadepowers.com