Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Cohen, Rich |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Date: | 4/8/2003 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
A bittersweet coming-of-age story that quietly bores to the essence of friendship and how it survives even as it is destined to change.
“So outrageous and so true…. the book rockets along, powered by the high octane of Cohen’s candor [and] off-beat observations.” —The New York Times Book Review
Raised in an affluent suburb on theNorth Shore of Chicago, Rich Cohen had a cluster of interesting friends, but nonemore interesting than Jamie Drew. Fatherless, reckless, and lower middle class ina place that wasn’t, Jamie possessed such an irresistible insouciance and charm thateven the teachers called him Drew-licious. Through the high school years of partiesand Cub games and girls, of summer nights on the beach and forbidden forays intothe blues bars of Chicago’s notorious South Side, the two formed an inseparable after Cohen went to college in New Orleans (Jamie went to Kansas) and then movedto New York, where he had a memorable interlude with the legendary New Yorker writerJoseph Mitchell, Jamie remained oddly crucial to his life.
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