| Huge Contributor(s): Fuerst, James W. (Author), Woodman, Jeff (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1441723161 ISBN-13: 9781441723161 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: March 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Coming Of Age - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Themes: - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For precocious twelve-year-old Eugene Smalls, growing up isn't easy. His bad reputation precedes him, public school considers him a lost cause, and his own family seems out to get him. He's got a temper, so don't dare call him "Genie " He insists on being called "Huge," and though small, he's tough and hard-boiled, just like his heroes, pulp detectives Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade, who taught him everything he knows about crime solving. When the nursing home where his grandmother stays is vandalized, she hires him to solve the case. But he misreads clues, misinterprets motives, and mistakes mundane incidents for diabolical schemes as only an inexperienced adolescent with a restless imagination can. His search for "whodunit" turns into a search for self in this coming-of-age story set in 1980s suburban New Jersey. |
Contributor Bio(s): Fuerst, James W.: - James W. Fuerst spent his teenage years in New Jersey and now lives in Brooklyn. He earned his MA and PhD from Harvard University and holds an MFA from the New School. Huge is his first novel. Woodman, Jeff: -Jeff Woodman originated the title role in Tennessee Williams' The Notebook of Trigorin and won the S.F. Critics' Circle Award for his performance in An Ideal Husband. In addition to numerous theater credits on and off Broadway, his television work includes Sex and the City, Law & Order, and Cosby. A six time Audie Award finalist (and a 2007 winner), he has received seventeen Earphones Awards and was named one of the Fifty Greatest Voices of the Century by AudioFile magazine. |