num_pages: 192
description: Set in Savannah, Georgia, in the early 1970s, this is a novel of youth, its anarchic joy, and its first encounters with the concerns and apprehensions of early adulthood.Francis Doyle, Tim Sullivan, and their three closest friends are altar boys at Blessed Heart Catholic Church and eighth-grade classmates at the parish school. They are also inveterate pranksters, suburban Tom Saywers. Bright, artistic, and unimpressed by adult authority, they are sworn to subvert the world that their parents and teachers have made for them. Trouble at school presents the opportunity for their crowning escapade - for a chance to move beyond broken streetlights, playground brawls, and shoplifted junk food. Woven into the details of the boys' preparations for the stunt are author Chris Fuhrman's touching, hilarious renderings of the daily routines of the school day and the initiatory rites of male adolescence, from the first serious kiss to the first serious hangover.
language: English
title: The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
titlecomplete: The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
genres: Fiction, Religion, American, Coming Of Age, The United States Of America, Teen, Young Adult, Adult, Novels, Southern
ratings_count: 1479
places: Savannah, Georgia
publisher: Washington Square Press