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Foreseeing a hopeless future in barrooms and parking lots, cagey 13-year-old Luli McMullen bolts headlong from the heartland, aiming at Las Vegas where she expects to find herself a sugar daddy.
Almost immediately, Eddie Kreezer, a roving obsessive with a violent streak, and his erstwhole victim, a fading but lovely grifter named Glenda, begin to do battle for Luli's head and heart.
On their perilous journey west, Luli is introduced to drifters, lowlifes, strippers, speed freaks, gold-diggers, and a Libertarian with a dog named Karl. Along the way, she learns the truth of American rootlessness and discovers both the power and the peril of her own sexual curiosity.
Part coming-of-age story and part raggedy picaresque, Hick is quite a ride — raw and edgy, hilarious, hopeful, and heartbreaking. But always, Luli charts her own course with a vivacity and vision that will mark her indelibly in any readers memory.
Hick is at once a true-to-life portrait of an inviolable spirit and a stubbornly idealistic novel about growing up in America.
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
| WonderClub |
Steven Vitale
reviewed Hick on September 17, 2007 Hick
Best literary release of 2007, hands down. No, hands up, raise your hands to the sky and praise tha lah-ord for scratching my literary itch.
Portes nails the pubescent voice of a girl named Luli who decides to leave her horrid, abusive existence in Nebraska for the road, a road leading to Las Vegas. Luli discovers she has something that men want with her maturing body and feels that is going to give her the life she needs.
Along the way she gets protection from a shady motherly type named Glenda.
Dark, funny and naked to the bone honesty make "Hick" the literary classic it will become.
It's one of those books you read, if you're a writer, that will make you seeth with jealousy.
Trust me, if you only buy one book this year, if you only read one book this year, make it "Hick". I'm not kidding. Buy it because you won't be able to help yourself by marking and highlighting all the brilliant dialogue and narrative and you'll need to read it twice.
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Add Hick, Foreseeing a hopeless future in barrooms and parking lots, cagey 13-year-old Luli McMullen bolts headlong from the heartland, aiming at Las Vegas where she expects to find herself a sugar daddy. Almost immediately, Eddie Kreezer, a roving obsessive wit, Hick to your collection on WonderClub |
