num_pages: 225
description: As Scott, a hapless drifter who supports himself as a medical test subject, searches for love, affection, and respect from the residents in a desolate town, he finds himself struggling to control his interactions with the people he encounters. Reprint.
language: English
title: The Ambidextrist
titlecomplete: The Ambidextrist
genres: Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 60
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Oregon Book Award
category: Fiction (Finalist)
publisher: MacAdam/Cage