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From the moment his mother tries unsuccessfully to coax him into saying "Philadelphia," Jeremy Zorn's life is framed by his unwieldy attempts at articulation. Through family rituals with his word-obsessed parents and sister, failed first love, an ill-fated run for class president, as the only Jewish boy on an otherwise all-black basketball team, all of the passages of Jeremy's life are marked in some way by his stutter and his wildly off-the-mark attempts at a cure. It is only when he enters col
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Shields, David
- Publisher
- New York: Knopf: Distributed by Random House
- Published
- 1989
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780394573885
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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