description: In the tradition of Catcher in the Rye, a smart, funny, poignant, very modern autobiographical coming-of-age novel, written when the author was sixteen years old.Benni is partially paralyzed and a serial failure (he's been kicked out of four boarding schools in his short life and has just entered his fifth). So he's a little odd, but he's cool and he finds other strange boys to hang with. Together they set out to experience what they can: girls, booze, sex, philosophy, drugs, sex, books, music, sex -- pretty much anything. And Benni lets us in on "the crazy life" he figures is the only way to deal with the crazy world.Benjamin Lebert delivers an exhilarating picture of the time in life when everyone feels a little crippled but wants to know, do, be everything at once...whatever.Translated by Carol Brown Janeway.
language: English
title: Crazy
titlecomplete: Crazy
genres: Fiction, Coming Of Age, Roman, German Literature, School, Young Adult, Banned Books, Novels, Contemporary, Germany
ratings_count: 2307
places: Germany
publisher: Turtleback Books