Into the Great Wide Open

Kevin Canty

first published 1996 Vintage Contemporaries, 1997 paperback

Smart but scarred, Kenny Kolodny yearns to awake from the nightmare of his smashed-up family: his mother is in an institution and forever away; his father is an abusive alcoholic; his brother lives abroad. Seventeen and alone, he hangs on the periphery of his world, until he makes a passionate connection with the troubled, beautiful, fiercely independent Junie Williamson. Kenny discovers in their highly charged, int...

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Into the Great Wide Open. paperback · 2001 · Rowohlt Tb. · 9783499230240
Into the Great Wide Open. hardcover · 2000 · Rowohlt, Reinbek · 9783498009106
Into the great wide open edition · 1997 · Vintage Contemporaries · 244 pages
Into the Great Wide Open paperback · 1997 · Vintage Contemporaries · 9780679779339
Into the great wide open edition · 1996 · Nan A. Talese/Doubleday · 244 pages

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