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Title Statement | Hampton Heights: one harrowing night in the most haunted neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin / Dan Kois. |
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Author | Kois, Dan |
Publication | New York: Harper Perennial,[2024]©2024 |
Edition | First edition. |
Extent of Item | 190 pages ; |
ISBN | 9780063358751 (trade paperback) |
Other Number | pr07484525 |
Summary | On a cold winter's evening in 1987, six middle-school paperboys wander an unfamiliar Milwaukee neighborhood, selling newspaper subscriptions, fueled by their manager Kevin's promises of cash bonuses and dinner at Burger King. But the freaks come out at night in Hampton Heights. Sent out into the neighborhood in pairs, the boys will encounter a host of primordial monsters--and triumph over them. Sigmone, who is bussed to a white school, is stuck with Joel, a white kid who idolizes Black culture. Mark, who's wrestling with his sexuality, joins his secret crush, Ryan. Nishu and Al are outsiders; one is a second-generation immigrant, the other a poor kid in a rich school. Over the course of one eventful evening, the three pairs will encounter the wild things of Hampton Heights--werewolves, witches with a centuries-old story to tell, and a creepy, ancient monster who feeds on memories. Meanwhile, Kevin is having an adventure of his own, seducing a beautiful woman in the neighborhood's tavern ... but who is actually in control? Funny, thrilling, outrageous, and sneakily beautiful, Dan Kois's Hampton Heights captures without sentimentality the dreams and fears of teenage boys in a tender horror-comedy about camaraderie, bravery, vulnerability, and the terrifying prospect of growing up. |
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By Topic | Haunted places--Fiction |
Monsters--Fiction | |
Neighborhoods--Fiction | |
Teenage boys--Fiction | |
Teenagers--Fiction | |
By Location | Milwaukee (Wis.)--Fiction |
By Genre | Monster fiction |
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