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Actual Adventures Of Michael Missing, The: Stories
Actual Adventures Of Michael Missing The Stories Author:Michael Hickens Michael Hickins lives in Paris now. But he was born in a particularly unlovely precinct of Queens, one of the five boroughs constituting the City of New York-and it was there in the hardpan of Queens that Hickins went to school in the lessons of the street and in the higher learning of the back room. A scholarship sent him to Columbia, where he ... more »acquired an interest in making a record of what he knew. The result is this book. But do not look in it for the kind of report on has come to expect from the formerly angry, the hirthero deprived. Becuase to see it the way Michael Missing sees it--Michael Missing being Michael Hickins favorite stand-in--what's to be angry about, who was deprived? On the contrary, the dirty-mouthed, dirty mided hotshot hero of these lovable, affilitiated fictions is definitely the kid-in-charge. Talk about your wisenheimers, young Michael Missing is banking on making it all the way to the White House. Okay, so what if he's aced a few civilians, perpetrated every stinking, lousy, rotten, crummy, nasty deed in sight and even tried to nail his own sister? We ask you what's so awful? Besides, isn't this child just doing his best to have himself a really cool time? Better get out your laughing towel. Plus you shockproof boots. Because here comes a very bad boy.