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“The stories are raw and funny-sad, and they capture with perfectpitch the impossible exhilaration, the inevitable downbeat-ness,and the pure confusion of being an adolescent. . . . Franco hasa air for creating these stopped moments that lift a story fromits specic setting into a universal place, so that particular mean-ings resonate out from themselves and redouble their effect.”
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Elle
“Delightfully coarse, rifng dialogue that hones in on subjectslike race and sex, love and violence . . . Compelling and gutsy.”
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Vogue
“Franco writes with such deep empathy and afnity that onehas to wonder if he lived this life.”
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USA Today
“You’ll be able to pick out Franco’s inuences: RaymondCarver’s tight-lipped stoicism; the sun-streaked disaffectionof
Less Than Zero
. . . Hubert Selby Jr.’s
Last Exit to Brooklyn
.. . . He excels at dialogue.”
—Salon.com
“In ‘I Could Kill Someone’ especially, about a high schooler’sdeliberations over murdering a bully, there is an element of sympathy for the tormented narrator that makes his thoughtprocess real and frightening. . . . Franco is a serious writer.”
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The Wall Street Journal
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Palo Alto: Stories by James Franco
A fiercely vivid collection of stories about troubled California teenagers and misfits--violent and harrowing, from the astonishingly talented actor and artist James Franco.
“[Franco] ends up perfectly mirroring the undulations of a teenage mind.”
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“[Franco] ends up perfectly mirroring the undulations of a teenage mind.”
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