A friend of Kissinger
Subtitle: a novel
By: David Milofsky.
Series: Library of American fiction
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Madison
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Boys -- Fiction.; Madison (Wis.) -- Fiction.; Milwaukee (Wis.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Danny's bubble-like existence in paradisal Madison is broken when his father, a concert pianist and professor, is stricken with illness and must give up his professorship. The family is forced to move to Milwaukee to live at the brink of poverty while his father gets sicker, his artistic mother struggles as bread-winner, and his brother becomes delusional. Here, Danny finds himself in the uncertain position of having to accept the responsibilities of manhood while still struggling with adolescence.".

"In a world that keeps shifting, Danny befriends the son of a gangster and, through his brushes with that compelling world of crime, finds his way to a new confidence."--BOOK JACKET.