{"product_id":"the-lesser-blessed-9781771621137","title":"The Lesser Blessed","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe 20th-anniversary edition of Richard Van Camp's best-selling coming-of-age story, with a new introduction and story by the author\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLarry is a Dogrib Indian growing up in the small northern town of Fort Simmer. His tongue, his hallucinations and his fantasies are hotter than the center of the sun. At sixteen, he loves Iron Maiden, the North and Juliet Hope, the high school \"tramp.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this powerful and very funny first novel, Richard Van Camp gives us one of the most original teenage characters in Canadian fiction. Skinny as spaghetti, nervy and self-deprecating, Larry is an appealing mixture of bravado and vulnerability. His past holds many terrors: an abusive father, blackouts from sniffing gasoline, an accident that killed several of his cousins, and he's now being hunted and haunted by a pack of blue monkeys. But through his new friendship with Johnny, a Metis who just moved to town, he's now ready to face his memories -- and his future. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Lesser Blessed\u003c\/i\u003e is an eye-opening depiction of what it is to be a young Dogrib man in the age of AIDS, disillusionment with Catholicism, and a growing world consciousness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Douglas \u0026amp; McIntyre\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/08\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781771621137\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d","brand":"Richard Van Camp","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36668330147996,"sku":"9781771621137","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_385e7f53-3082-4980-890c-487a5d844ae7.jpg?v=1603917265","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-lesser-blessed-9781771621137","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}