Pub Date: 2006-01-03 Pages: 288 Language: English Publisher:. Harper Collins The most provocative young adult novel yet from New York Times best-selling author Joyce Carol Oates Darren Flynn is popular. good-looking. and has a spot on the varsity swim team. But after what happened that day in November (did it happen). life is different for Darren. Now his friends. his family. even the people who are supposed to be in charge are no longer who Darren thought they were. Who can he trust now In her third novel for young adults. the author of the acclaimed Big Mouth & Ugly Girl leads readers on an internal journey of self-discovery. moral complexity. and sexuality. Sixteen-year-old Darren Flynn. a popular. good-looking high school athlete who lacks self-confidence. learns that his jock friends are hatching a revenge act against their English teacher for failing a member of the sw...

 

There are 288 pages in this book. This book was published 2006 by HarperCollins Publishers Inc .

Born in upstate New York in 1938, Joyce Carol Oates has twice been nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature. She has won the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the Pen / Faulkner Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is the author of a number of distinguished books in several genres, all published within the past twenty-five years, and is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Princeton University.