Lake Effect: A Memoir
Rich Cohen$16.15
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A bittersweet coming-of-age story that quietly bores to the essence of friendship and how it survives even as it is destined to change.
"So outrageous and so true.... the book rockets along, powered by the high octane of Cohen's candor [and] off-beat observations." --The New York Times Book Review
Raised in an affluent suburb on the North Shore of Chicago, Rich Cohen had a cluster of interesting friends, but none more interesting than Jamie Drew. Fatherless, reckless, and lower middle class in a place that wasn't, Jamie possessed such an irresistible insouciance and charm that even the teachers called him Drew-licious. Through the high school years of parties and Cub games and girls, of summer nights on the beach and forbidden forays into the blues bars of Chicago's notorious South Side, the two formed an inseparable bond. Even after Cohen went to college in New Orleans (Jamie went to Kansas) and then moved to New York, where he had a memorable interlude with the legendary New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell, Jamie remained oddly crucial to his life.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 04/08/2003
ISBN: 9780375725333
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.20w x 0.59d
Review Citations: New York Times 04/20/2003 pg. 28
Kliatt 07/01/2003 pg. 38
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 69570 / Lake Effect
Reading Level: 6.2 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 9
"So outrageous and so true.... the book rockets along, powered by the high octane of Cohen's candor [and] off-beat observations." --The New York Times Book Review
Raised in an affluent suburb on the North Shore of Chicago, Rich Cohen had a cluster of interesting friends, but none more interesting than Jamie Drew. Fatherless, reckless, and lower middle class in a place that wasn't, Jamie possessed such an irresistible insouciance and charm that even the teachers called him Drew-licious. Through the high school years of parties and Cub games and girls, of summer nights on the beach and forbidden forays into the blues bars of Chicago's notorious South Side, the two formed an inseparable bond. Even after Cohen went to college in New Orleans (Jamie went to Kansas) and then moved to New York, where he had a memorable interlude with the legendary New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell, Jamie remained oddly crucial to his life.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 04/08/2003
ISBN: 9780375725333
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.20w x 0.59d
Review Citations: New York Times 04/20/2003 pg. 28
Kliatt 07/01/2003 pg. 38
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 69570 / Lake Effect
Reading Level: 6.2 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 9