Sixteen-year-old misfit Chris Boyd moves with his mother, a practical nurse, from one live-in job to another. Lloyd Dipardi, himself a misfit, points the way to manhood for Chris by teaching him to take responsibility for his own life."Zindel has a caustic comic touch...and a talent for spotlighting bizarre and dramatic scenes."-- "Kirkus Reviews."
An ALA Best Book for Young Adults.
- ISBN10 0553271903
- ISBN13 9780553271904
- Publish Date 1 April 1984
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 May 2017
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Imprint Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
- Format Paperback
- Pages 165
- Language English