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| Set in the '60s, this novel about upper-class kids on Long Island focuses on Billy Green and the comic book he creates that provides a tour through turbulent times. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003. | |
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| Length: | 703 pages |
| Height: | 8.0 in. |
| Width: | 5.0 in. |
| Thickness: | 1.2 in. |
| Weight: | 19.2 oz. |
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| In 1960, a group of friends are plucked from their sixth grade classroom in privileged Great Neck, Long Island and confronted for the first time with the horrors of the Holocaust. They hear a challenge from the past, a cry from history to set the world on a better course; but it is the murder of a much-loved older brother during Mississippi’s Freedom Summer that makes their mission clear. From the front line of the civil rights movement to Andy Warhol’s New York art scene, from comic book superheroes to the violent maelstrom of the Weather Underground, Great Neck immerses us in a charged time not so long ago, and illuminates the lives of those who were shaped by its energies and ideals. Vigorous, funny, profound and altogether gripping, it is a masterpiece of contemporary literature. | |
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| "Comprehensive and amusing." Kirkus Reviews (11/01/2002) "Can a novel be both economical and bloated? Some writers worry about how to get a character down the stairs and out the door -- not Cantor. He's a minimalist when it comes to stage directions and decor. A few deft touches, and there you are....But Cantor is definitely a maximalist when it comes to covering emotional ground, especially the spasm of conscience....There are more than a dozen characters in GREAT NECK who regularly come in for full head scans; it's as though Cantor required a detailed topographical survey of someone's psyche--anyone's psyche--on every other page....GREAT NECK...is so rich in character and incident that you can't help wishing it a long shelf life and many devoted readers. Overflowing with brainpower--as though all the minds Cantor investigates were somehow networked and engaged in furious serial processing--it finds room for heart, too. It is, after all, a novel about friends." New York Times Book Review - Adam Begley (02/02/2003) | |
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