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Original Title:	Hick
ISBN:	1932961321 (ISBN13: 9781932961324)
Edition Language:	English

Hick

Andrea Portes

Paperback | Pages: 264 pages

Rating: 3.78 | 1006 Users | 111 Reviews

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Title	:	Hick
Author	:	Andrea Portes
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 264 pages
Published	:	May 1st 2007 by Unbridled Books (first published January 1st 2007)
Categories	:	Fiction. Young Adult. Coming Of Age. Contemporary

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Foreseeing a hopeless future in barrooms and parking lots, cagey 13-year-old Luli McMullen bolts headlong from the heartland, aiming at Las Vegas where she expects to find herself a sugar daddy. Almost immediately, crooked-bodied Eddie Kreezer, a roving obsessive with a violent streak, and a fading but lovely grifter named Glenda begin to do battle for Luli's head and heart. On their perilous journey westward, Luli is introduced to drifters, lowlifes, strippers, speed freaks, gold-diggers, and a Libertarian with a dog named Karl. Along the way, she learns the truth of American rootlessness and discovers both the power and the peril of her own sexual curiosity. Part coming-of-age story and part raggedy picaresque, Hick leads us at a blinding pace down broken roads through a world that seems to this extraordinary and indomitable young girl dangerously uncharted.

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Ratings: 3.78 From 1006 Users | 111 Reviews

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"And on and on till the moon gives way and the sun kills itself and the stars fall from the sky. I guess I'll see you then." Loved this, made my heart swell and my eyes leak.

Rating: 3.5

This was an excellent novel! It's hysterically funny, even though it reminds me, kind of, of "Bastard out of Carolina" and "Ellen Foster" - it has that sort of naive, yet smart, child narrative. The BEST line, if this gives you an idea of what this book is like: "And maybe I am just a two-bit hick from the heartland but I do know one thing, my mama did not raise me to be skankin it in skanksville with the skanks."

book is better than the movie (obviously). but on that note, the movie is surprisingly faithful to the source material with only two character changes iirc.

This book is currently being challenged by a patron at the library where I work so, of course, I had to read it. I believe the patron is just concerned about the language in the book and, after reading it, I'm pretty sure she never read the entire thing.Yes, it's a difficult story to read, but the language is not out of place nor, in my humble opinion, excessive. I was SO drawn into the plight of Luli that I didn't really notice excessive "bad" language but was caught up instead with the

What saved this book from being a one star:1. the blue dress and all that it symbolized2. Luli playing Categories with Clement and all that it symbolizedThis wasn't a terrible book, but there were some things that just irritated me. I think the problem is that the author wanted to tell the story from Luli's point of view, but she also wanted to show off her language skills with some descriptive writing that didn't fit the narrative voice. Luli is supposed to be thirteen with limited education,

Did you ever see Freeway? No? Oh, you got to see Freeway! Reese Witherspoon gives her all time best performance as Vanessa Lutz, teenage daughter of a couple of rural junkies, just another in a long line of wild American girls who go looking for trouble and find it real quick. Heres a flavour of the Vanessa Lutz experience:That was 1996. More recently we have encountered 16 year old Lili Hobart, played by the weird, horribly compelling Juno Temple, in Little Birds. And way before that, in 1973,