num_pages: 368
description: A nine-year-old boy, growing up on the upper west side of Manhattan in the late 1970s, is overwhelmed by the pain of his irrationally raging father and his artistically stifled mother, a situation that causes him to take to the open road with young kindred spirit Darla. A first novel.
language: English
title: Bruiser: A Novel
titlecomplete: Bruiser: A Novel
genres: Fiction
ratings_count: 103
publisher: Atria