Bestselling author William Peter Blatty warms our hearts with a funny yet deeply moving nostalgic tale of memory, mystery . . . and miracles. New York, 1941: Joey El Bueno is just a smart-aleck kid, confounding the nuns and bullies at St. Stephen's school on East 28th Street when he first meets Jane Bent, a freckle-faced girl with red pigtails and yellow smiley-face barrettes who seems to know him better than he knows himself. A magical afternoon at the movies, watching Cary Grant in "Gunga Din," is the beginning of a puzzling friendship that soon leaves Joey baffled and bewildered. Jane is like nobody he has ever met. She comes and goes at will, nobody else seems to have heard of her, and is it true that she once levitated six feet off the ground at the refreshment counter of the old Superior movie house on Third Avenue? Joey, an avid reader of pulp magazines and comic books, is no stranger to amazing stories, but Jane is a bewitching enigma that keeps him guessing for the rest of his life--until, finally, it all makes sense. Rich with the warmth of a bygone era, "Crazy" captures both the giddy craziness of youth--and the sublime possibilities of existence.
- ISBN10 0765326493
- ISBN13 9780765326492
- Publish Date 9 November 2010
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Forge
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 188
- Language English