Into the great wide open
By: Kevin Canty.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Suburban life -- Fiction.; Teenagers -- Fiction.; Virginia -- Fiction.
Description: Smart but scarred, Kenny Kolodny yearns to awake from the nightmare of his smashed-up family: his mother is in an institution and forever away; his father is an abusive alcoholic; his brother lives abroad. Seventeen and alone, he hangs on the periphery of his world, until he makes a passionate connection with the troubled, beautiful, fiercely independent Junie Williamson.

Kenny discovers in their highly charged, intensely erotic relationship a reality - and a capacity for caring - he has not known before.