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Outside Providence A Novel

ISBN-10: 0385490585

ISBN-13: 9780385490580

Edition: N/A

Authors: Peter Farrelly

List price: $15.00
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Outside Providence is a hilarious yet melancholy novel of a young man's coming of age in the 1970s. When Timothy Dunphy, native of working-class Pawtucket, Rhode Island, is packed off to a fancy prep school, he finds that the privileged elite is hardly immune to life's screwups. Dunphy must reconcile his pedigreed schoolmates with his mongrel friends back home--including Drugs Delaney, whose diet consists mainly of vitamin Qs (Quaaludes), and Bunny Cote, who thinks New England is a state. Not far below Dunphy's comic demeanor churn powerful fears of abandonment by those he loves best: his mother, his girlfriend, and his closest friend. And he must come to terms with his complex…    
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Book details

List price: $15.00
Publisher: Broadway Books
Publication date: 10/6/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 212
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Peter Farrelly is a screenwriter and director, and the author of a previous novel,Outside Providence.  He attended Providence College and Columbia University.