Bongwater

Michael Hornburg

first published 1995 Quartet, 1995 234 pages

10-18, Domaine étranger

Bongwater is a novel that wavers along the solar eclipse of the American Dream, a neo-Beat, grungeoisie love story that has all the authenticity and none of the pretension of its forerunners, a book that will be for the slacker generation of the nineties what Bright Lights, Big City was for the wannabe eighties. Set mainly under the sodden gray skies of Portland, Oregon, the novel renders the intimate lives of a sub...

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Bongwater edition · 2007 · Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated · 9780802199584
Bongwater edition · 1996 · 10-18 · 190 pages · 9782264022431
Bongwater edition · 1996 · Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated · 208 pages · 9780802134561
Bongwater edition · 1995 · Quartet · 234 pages
Bongwater edition · 1995 · Grove Press · 189 pages

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