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Boonville
Boonville
Author: Robert Mailer Anderson
Surrounded by misfits, rednecks, and counterculture burnouts, John Gibson -- the reluctant heir of an alcoholic grandmother -- and Sarah McKay -- a commune-reared "hippie-by-association" -- search for self and community in the hole-of-a-town Boonville. As they try to assemble from the late-twentieth-century jumble of life the facts of ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780060516215
ISBN-10: 0060516216
Publication Date: 1/2003
Pages: 272
Rating:
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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3.6 stars, based on 15 ratings
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 0
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Too funny.. So true to Mendocino County. OK - so perhaps the unbelievably truthful and wacky descriptions of the California locals makes it a bit unreachable for the average Joe - and I agree sometimes the characters lack depth... but boy was this funny.
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Every summer I visit Boonville. When I was reading this book, I could just picture the characters being real. As a matter of fact.
next year when I'm in the Buckhorn Saloon, I'll be looking around.


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