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The Worst Years of Your Life: Stories for the Geeked-Out, Angst-Ridden, Lust-Addled, and Deeply Misunderstood Adolescent in All of Us

A delightful and terrifying collection of twenty short stories, edited by critically acclaimed writer and novelist Mark Jude Poirier. Adolescence. Fortunately it's over with early and once you've finished paying for therapy, there's still a chance to move on with your life. The Worst Years of Your Life says it all: angst, depression, growing pains, puberty, nasty boys and nastier girls; these are stories of aaawkwardness and embarassment from a stellar list of contributors. Great postmodern classics like John Barth's "Lost in the Funhouse" are paired with newer selections, such as Stacey Richter's "The Beauty Treatment" and A.M. Homes's "A Real Doll," in this searing, unforgettable collection. A perfect book for revisiting old favorites and discovering new ones, and the opportunity to relive the worst years of your life -- without having to relive the worst years of your life.

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Title of ebook: The Worst Years of Your Life: Stories for the Geeked-Out, Angst-Ridden, Lust-Addled, and Deeply Misunderstood Adolescent in All of Us
ISBN: 9781416565246
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Internet download file size: 313 kb
Pages: 400
Released online for download: 08-21-2007
Author of eBook: Poirier, Mark Jude

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The Worst Years of Your Life

Stories for the Geeked-Out, Angst-Ridden, Lust-Addled, and Deeply Misunderstood Adolescent in All of Us
Introduction

At age twenty-six -- broke, unpublished, and having recently finished a second master's degree of doubtful utility -- I took a job at a private school in Phoenix, to teach eighth-grade English to fifty (mostly) rich kids. Developing the curriculum, grading stacks of papers, and lecturing on the use of semicolons was unpleasant in its own inimitable way, but it was nothing compared to the stress I felt being a part of the chaos of middle-school culture again -- even at this tony little academy in the shadow of Camelback Mountain.

Most of the eighth-grade girls could have passed for college coeds: tall, already curvy, and dressed in the same clothes that women wore down the road at Arizona State. They were only slightly uncomfortable in their new bodies, and many already knew how to use them. They were evil girls. Really evil. They turned on each other like starving coyotes, and it was difficult to know from day to day who was leading the snarling pack.

The boys were all dorks. Most of them were short and baby-faced, and the few who were tall were gangly messes of raging hormones. Some h ... read full excerpt from The Worst Years of Your Life: Stories for the Geeked-Out, Angst-Ridden, Lust-Addled, and Deeply Misunderstood Adolescent in All of Us ebook

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