Author: El Ninjo
Publisher: Speedy Publishing LLC
ISBN: 1635017203
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
El Ninjo is going to demonstrate how he takes advantage of each single sports adventure that he is experiencing in various hilarious sports activities and the situations go like this: * The Funny & Farty Hot Air Balloon Ride * How To Jump Higher * The 18th Hole Trick * El Ninjo's Genious Idea In The Doldrums * Oktoberfest Time & The Fart Impact On The Swing * Driving On The Merry Go Round Is Only Fun With Some Fart Art * Baseball Power Hitting * The NY Style Artistry + Black Fart Rap Skyscraper Freestyle Sound - This is a brand new story and it has never been released before! and many more... The list of Dog Jerks - Vol. 3 goes like this: Why Dogs Can Be Real Jerks Sometimes Jerky Treats Better Than Celery Sticks The Perky Bullfrog Trick Egocentric Pesky Perks Pee Wee Herman Philosophy A Jerk's Agenda ... One last word of WARNING from El Ninjo himself: "Don't forget to check your shorts after you finish reading...because you'll laugh so hard you might tear your pants. I heard some scary story about a brave 8 year old boy who got so excited and laughed so hard about one of my fart whiffing episodes, he tore his underpants! Don't ask me about the reaction of his Mom who had to wash and mend her son's poopy ripped pants. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha - This one is a real gag! This boy is now part of the flatulent secret society!" Purchase this new & enhanced Fart Book right now for your kids and enjoy some fun parent kid time where you will LOL together with your kids because the colorful cartoon illustrations inside are hilarious. Take a peek inside to see the awesome way that you can benefit and participate in an interactive way: - read the stories - listen to them while reading simultaneously - enjoying the wonderful colorful and hilarious illustrations - determining El Ninjo's next fart path Purchase my "Fart Book" right now for your kids while this low intro price is available. Go ahead...purchase today and let the fun begin...
Comic Ebook: Hilarious Book For Kids Age 5-8 - Dog Farts & Dog Fart Super-Hero Style - Dog Humor Books
Author: El Ninjo
Publisher: Speedy Publishing LLC
ISBN: 1635017203
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
El Ninjo is going to demonstrate how he takes advantage of each single sports adventure that he is experiencing in various hilarious sports activities and the situations go like this: * The Funny & Farty Hot Air Balloon Ride * How To Jump Higher * The 18th Hole Trick * El Ninjo's Genious Idea In The Doldrums * Oktoberfest Time & The Fart Impact On The Swing * Driving On The Merry Go Round Is Only Fun With Some Fart Art * Baseball Power Hitting * The NY Style Artistry + Black Fart Rap Skyscraper Freestyle Sound - This is a brand new story and it has never been released before! and many more... The list of Dog Jerks - Vol. 3 goes like this: Why Dogs Can Be Real Jerks Sometimes Jerky Treats Better Than Celery Sticks The Perky Bullfrog Trick Egocentric Pesky Perks Pee Wee Herman Philosophy A Jerk's Agenda ... One last word of WARNING from El Ninjo himself: "Don't forget to check your shorts after you finish reading...because you'll laugh so hard you might tear your pants. I heard some scary story about a brave 8 year old boy who got so excited and laughed so hard about one of my fart whiffing episodes, he tore his underpants! Don't ask me about the reaction of his Mom who had to wash and mend her son's poopy ripped pants. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha - This one is a real gag! This boy is now part of the flatulent secret society!" Purchase this new & enhanced Fart Book right now for your kids and enjoy some fun parent kid time where you will LOL together with your kids because the colorful cartoon illustrations inside are hilarious. Take a peek inside to see the awesome way that you can benefit and participate in an interactive way: - read the stories - listen to them while reading simultaneously - enjoying the wonderful colorful and hilarious illustrations - determining El Ninjo's next fart path Purchase my "Fart Book" right now for your kids while this low intro price is available. Go ahead...purchase today and let the fun begin...
Publisher: Speedy Publishing LLC
ISBN: 1635017203
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
El Ninjo is going to demonstrate how he takes advantage of each single sports adventure that he is experiencing in various hilarious sports activities and the situations go like this: * The Funny & Farty Hot Air Balloon Ride * How To Jump Higher * The 18th Hole Trick * El Ninjo's Genious Idea In The Doldrums * Oktoberfest Time & The Fart Impact On The Swing * Driving On The Merry Go Round Is Only Fun With Some Fart Art * Baseball Power Hitting * The NY Style Artistry + Black Fart Rap Skyscraper Freestyle Sound - This is a brand new story and it has never been released before! and many more... The list of Dog Jerks - Vol. 3 goes like this: Why Dogs Can Be Real Jerks Sometimes Jerky Treats Better Than Celery Sticks The Perky Bullfrog Trick Egocentric Pesky Perks Pee Wee Herman Philosophy A Jerk's Agenda ... One last word of WARNING from El Ninjo himself: "Don't forget to check your shorts after you finish reading...because you'll laugh so hard you might tear your pants. I heard some scary story about a brave 8 year old boy who got so excited and laughed so hard about one of my fart whiffing episodes, he tore his underpants! Don't ask me about the reaction of his Mom who had to wash and mend her son's poopy ripped pants. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha - This one is a real gag! This boy is now part of the flatulent secret society!" Purchase this new & enhanced Fart Book right now for your kids and enjoy some fun parent kid time where you will LOL together with your kids because the colorful cartoon illustrations inside are hilarious. Take a peek inside to see the awesome way that you can benefit and participate in an interactive way: - read the stories - listen to them while reading simultaneously - enjoying the wonderful colorful and hilarious illustrations - determining El Ninjo's next fart path Purchase my "Fart Book" right now for your kids while this low intro price is available. Go ahead...purchase today and let the fun begin...
The Things They Carried
Author: Tim O'Brien
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547420293
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. Taught everywhere—from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing—it has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing. The Things They Carried won France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547420293
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. Taught everywhere—from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing—it has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing. The Things They Carried won France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Let's Pretend This Never Happened
Author: Jenny Lawson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101573082
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling (mostly true) memoir from the hilarious author of Furiously Happy. “Gaspingly funny and wonderfully inappropriate.”—O, The Oprah Magazine When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it. In the irreverent Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson’s long-suffering husband and sweet daughter help her uncover the surprising discovery that the most terribly human moments—the ones we want to pretend never happened—are the very same moments that make us the people we are today. For every intellectual misfit who thought they were the only ones to think the things that Lawson dares to say out loud, this is a poignant and hysterical look at the dark, disturbing, yet wonderful moments of our lives. Readers Guide Inside
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101573082
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling (mostly true) memoir from the hilarious author of Furiously Happy. “Gaspingly funny and wonderfully inappropriate.”—O, The Oprah Magazine When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it. In the irreverent Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson’s long-suffering husband and sweet daughter help her uncover the surprising discovery that the most terribly human moments—the ones we want to pretend never happened—are the very same moments that make us the people we are today. For every intellectual misfit who thought they were the only ones to think the things that Lawson dares to say out loud, this is a poignant and hysterical look at the dark, disturbing, yet wonderful moments of our lives. Readers Guide Inside
Comic Books For Kids: Silly Jokes For Kids With Dog Farts + Dog Humor Books
Author: El Ninjo
Publisher: Speedy Publishing LLC
ISBN: 163501719X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
El Ninjo is going to demonstrate how he takes advantage of each single adventure that he is experiencing in various hilarious situations of life in Volume 1 and the situations go like this: * The Wake Upper Popper * The Straight Up Breakfast Table Shot * The Flying Carpet * The Backpack Burster * The Gasification In The Car * The Neighbour Detonator * The Imaginary Bone Shot Or Fart Expressionism * The Blue Hour In The Elevator (This is a brand new and never before released story. It is included for the first time in this new and enhanced color and audio version of the Fart Book) * The Delivery Boy Truck Detonater * The Stinky Tsunami * The Lego Blower * The Hand Stinker * The Marshmallow Shooter * The Steamy Sweat Blanket Pooper * The Gas Eruption in the Chicken Coop and many more... In Volume 2 he faces the most challenging sports activities. He uses his bean blowing ways in order to benefit from his powerful bean blowing air push and win every challenging sports activity like: * How To Jump Higher * How Windsurfing Works In The Doldrums? * Driving On The Merry Go Round Is Only Fun With Some Fart Art * The 18th Hole Trick * Baseball Power Hitting * The NY Style Artistry + Black Fart Rap Skyscraper Freestyle Sound (This is a brand new and never before released story. It is included for the first time in this new and enhanced color and audio version of the Fart Book) and many more bean blowing stories... The list of the African Bean Fart Adventures in the Jungle (Fart Book Volume 3) goes like this: * The Safari Mobil Breakdown * The Jungle Bang * The Bean Slam'n Smoke * Lots More... The list of Dog Jerks - Vol. 3 goes like this: Why Dogs Can Be Real Jerks Sometimes Jerky Treats Better Than Celery Sticks The Perky Bullfrog Trick Egocentric Pesky Perks Pee Wee Herman Philosophy A Jerk's Agenda Lots More... One last word of WARNING from El Ninjo himself: "Don't forget to check your shorts after you finish reading...because you'll laugh so hard...
Publisher: Speedy Publishing LLC
ISBN: 163501719X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
El Ninjo is going to demonstrate how he takes advantage of each single adventure that he is experiencing in various hilarious situations of life in Volume 1 and the situations go like this: * The Wake Upper Popper * The Straight Up Breakfast Table Shot * The Flying Carpet * The Backpack Burster * The Gasification In The Car * The Neighbour Detonator * The Imaginary Bone Shot Or Fart Expressionism * The Blue Hour In The Elevator (This is a brand new and never before released story. It is included for the first time in this new and enhanced color and audio version of the Fart Book) * The Delivery Boy Truck Detonater * The Stinky Tsunami * The Lego Blower * The Hand Stinker * The Marshmallow Shooter * The Steamy Sweat Blanket Pooper * The Gas Eruption in the Chicken Coop and many more... In Volume 2 he faces the most challenging sports activities. He uses his bean blowing ways in order to benefit from his powerful bean blowing air push and win every challenging sports activity like: * How To Jump Higher * How Windsurfing Works In The Doldrums? * Driving On The Merry Go Round Is Only Fun With Some Fart Art * The 18th Hole Trick * Baseball Power Hitting * The NY Style Artistry + Black Fart Rap Skyscraper Freestyle Sound (This is a brand new and never before released story. It is included for the first time in this new and enhanced color and audio version of the Fart Book) and many more bean blowing stories... The list of the African Bean Fart Adventures in the Jungle (Fart Book Volume 3) goes like this: * The Safari Mobil Breakdown * The Jungle Bang * The Bean Slam'n Smoke * Lots More... The list of Dog Jerks - Vol. 3 goes like this: Why Dogs Can Be Real Jerks Sometimes Jerky Treats Better Than Celery Sticks The Perky Bullfrog Trick Egocentric Pesky Perks Pee Wee Herman Philosophy A Jerk's Agenda Lots More... One last word of WARNING from El Ninjo himself: "Don't forget to check your shorts after you finish reading...because you'll laugh so hard...
The Bad Guys in Alien vs Bad Guys (The Bad Guys #6)
Author: Aaron Blabey
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338189603
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE! "I wish I'd had these books as a kid. Hilarious!" -- Dav Pilkey, creator of Captain Underpants and Dog ManThey may look like Bad Guys, but these wannabe heroes are doing good deeds...whether you like it or not! This New York Times bestselling illustrated series is perfect for fans of Dog Man and Captain Underpants.The Bad Guys are vanishing! A creature with TONS of teeth and WAY too many butts is stealing them, one by one. Is this the end for the Bad Guys? Maybe. Will it be funny? You bet your butts it will!
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338189603
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE! "I wish I'd had these books as a kid. Hilarious!" -- Dav Pilkey, creator of Captain Underpants and Dog ManThey may look like Bad Guys, but these wannabe heroes are doing good deeds...whether you like it or not! This New York Times bestselling illustrated series is perfect for fans of Dog Man and Captain Underpants.The Bad Guys are vanishing! A creature with TONS of teeth and WAY too many butts is stealing them, one by one. Is this the end for the Bad Guys? Maybe. Will it be funny? You bet your butts it will!
John Dies at the End
Author: Jason Pargin
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 142995678X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
John Dies at the End is a genre-bending, humorous account of two college drop-outs inadvertently charged with saving their small town--and the world--from a host of supernatural and paranormal invasions. Now a Major Motion Picture. "[Pargin] is like a mash-up of Douglas Adams and Stephen King... 'page-turner' is an understatement." —Don Coscarelli, director, Phantasm I-V, Bubba Ho-tep STOP. You should not have touched this flyer with your bare hands. NO, don't put it down. It's too late. They're watching you. My name is David. My best friend is John. Those names are fake. You might want to change yours. You may not want to know about the things you'll read on these pages, about the sauce, about Korrok, about the invasion, and the future. But it's too late. You touched the book. You're in the game. You're under the eye. The only defense is knowledge. You need to read this book, to the end. Even the part with the bratwurst. Why? You just have to trust me. The important thing is this: The sauce is a drug, and it gives users a window into another dimension. John and I never had the chance to say no. You still do. I'm sorry to have involved you in this, I really am. But as you read about these terrible events and the very dark epoch the world is about to enter as a result, it is crucial you keep one thing in mind: None of this was my fault.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 142995678X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
John Dies at the End is a genre-bending, humorous account of two college drop-outs inadvertently charged with saving their small town--and the world--from a host of supernatural and paranormal invasions. Now a Major Motion Picture. "[Pargin] is like a mash-up of Douglas Adams and Stephen King... 'page-turner' is an understatement." —Don Coscarelli, director, Phantasm I-V, Bubba Ho-tep STOP. You should not have touched this flyer with your bare hands. NO, don't put it down. It's too late. They're watching you. My name is David. My best friend is John. Those names are fake. You might want to change yours. You may not want to know about the things you'll read on these pages, about the sauce, about Korrok, about the invasion, and the future. But it's too late. You touched the book. You're in the game. You're under the eye. The only defense is knowledge. You need to read this book, to the end. Even the part with the bratwurst. Why? You just have to trust me. The important thing is this: The sauce is a drug, and it gives users a window into another dimension. John and I never had the chance to say no. You still do. I'm sorry to have involved you in this, I really am. But as you read about these terrible events and the very dark epoch the world is about to enter as a result, it is crucial you keep one thing in mind: None of this was my fault.
The Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Three: Titan's Curse
Author: Rick Riordan
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
In this third book of the acclaimed series, Percy and his friends are escorting two new half-bloods safely to camp when they are intercepted by a manticore and learn that the goddess Artemis has been kidnapped.
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
In this third book of the acclaimed series, Percy and his friends are escorting two new half-bloods safely to camp when they are intercepted by a manticore and learn that the goddess Artemis has been kidnapped.
Caveman Farts
Author: J. B. O'Neil
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781484926222
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
FREE Audiobook Inside! That's right...For a limited time you can download a FREE bonus MP3 audiobook version of J.B. O'Neil's "Caveman Farts - The Story of the First Stinky Farts" with your purchase of this book. You and your kids will laugh out loud as you listen to this fart-tastic audiobook (over 20 minutes long...complete with disgusting sound effects!). That's twice the farting fun -- Grab the book and get this bonus audiobook FREE while it's still available! From #1 Bestselling Author J.B. O'Neil! Ready to laugh your butt off? Milo Snotrocket is back and stinkier than ever in this hilarious new episode to the #1 Best-Selling "Fart Book" series. Milo Snotrocket's back...in time, that is! A class-time nap turns into a prehistoric party as Milo witnesses the world's first human fart, as delivered by the young caveboy Zug. When a nearby tribe starts making trouble for Zug and his people, it's up to the young boy and his butt-trumpet to save the day! Here's what readers are already saying about the side-splitting, bottom-burping Fart Books: "I haven't heard my daughter laughing and giggling that much since she stared school. Thank you J.B O'Neill - I will definitely get all your books to keep my child laughing." "Absolutely hysterical!...If you want to laugh your way through, from page to page, this is your opportunity and the price is perfect. Get your copy now, it will put a smile on your face!" "This book had me and my kids laughing from start to finish!...Talk about a fun Friday night!"
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781484926222
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
FREE Audiobook Inside! That's right...For a limited time you can download a FREE bonus MP3 audiobook version of J.B. O'Neil's "Caveman Farts - The Story of the First Stinky Farts" with your purchase of this book. You and your kids will laugh out loud as you listen to this fart-tastic audiobook (over 20 minutes long...complete with disgusting sound effects!). That's twice the farting fun -- Grab the book and get this bonus audiobook FREE while it's still available! From #1 Bestselling Author J.B. O'Neil! Ready to laugh your butt off? Milo Snotrocket is back and stinkier than ever in this hilarious new episode to the #1 Best-Selling "Fart Book" series. Milo Snotrocket's back...in time, that is! A class-time nap turns into a prehistoric party as Milo witnesses the world's first human fart, as delivered by the young caveboy Zug. When a nearby tribe starts making trouble for Zug and his people, it's up to the young boy and his butt-trumpet to save the day! Here's what readers are already saying about the side-splitting, bottom-burping Fart Books: "I haven't heard my daughter laughing and giggling that much since she stared school. Thank you J.B O'Neill - I will definitely get all your books to keep my child laughing." "Absolutely hysterical!...If you want to laugh your way through, from page to page, this is your opportunity and the price is perfect. Get your copy now, it will put a smile on your face!" "This book had me and my kids laughing from start to finish!...Talk about a fun Friday night!"
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Author: Maya Angelou
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 030747772X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity.”—James Baldwin From the Paperback edition.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 030747772X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity.”—James Baldwin From the Paperback edition.
Honky
Author: Dalton Conley
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520397843
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
This vivid memoir captures how race, class, and privilege shaped a white boy’s coming of age in 1970s New York—now with a new epilogue. “I am not your typical middle-class white male,” begins Dalton Conley’s Honky, an intensely engaging memoir of growing up amid predominantly African American and Latino housing projects on New York’s Lower East Side. In narrating these sharply observed memories, from his little sister’s burning desire for cornrows to the shooting of a close childhood friend, Conley shows how race and class inextricably shaped his life—as well as the lives of his schoolmates and neighbors. In a new afterword, Conley, now a well-established senior sociologist, provides an update on what his informants’ respective trajectories tell us about race and class in the city. He further reflects on how urban areas have (and haven’t) changed over the past few decades, including the stubborn resilience of poverty in New York. At once a gripping coming-of-age story and a brilliant case study illuminating broader inequalities in American society, Honky guides us to a deeper understanding of the cultural capital of whiteness, the social construction of race, and the intricacies of upward mobility.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520397843
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
This vivid memoir captures how race, class, and privilege shaped a white boy’s coming of age in 1970s New York—now with a new epilogue. “I am not your typical middle-class white male,” begins Dalton Conley’s Honky, an intensely engaging memoir of growing up amid predominantly African American and Latino housing projects on New York’s Lower East Side. In narrating these sharply observed memories, from his little sister’s burning desire for cornrows to the shooting of a close childhood friend, Conley shows how race and class inextricably shaped his life—as well as the lives of his schoolmates and neighbors. In a new afterword, Conley, now a well-established senior sociologist, provides an update on what his informants’ respective trajectories tell us about race and class in the city. He further reflects on how urban areas have (and haven’t) changed over the past few decades, including the stubborn resilience of poverty in New York. At once a gripping coming-of-age story and a brilliant case study illuminating broader inequalities in American society, Honky guides us to a deeper understanding of the cultural capital of whiteness, the social construction of race, and the intricacies of upward mobility.