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Fracking King : A Novel by James Browning (2014, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

ISBN-100544262999

ISBN-139780544262997

eBay Product ID (ePID)168476504

Product Key Features

Book TitleFracking King : a Novel

Number of Pages192 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicPsychological, Literary

Publication Year2014

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorJames Browning

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight10.9 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2013-045485

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal813/.6

SynopsisWhen the tap water at the Hale Boarding School for Boys bursts into flames, people blame fracking. Life at Hale has always been fraught--the swim test consists of being thrown into the pool with wrists and ankles tied, and a boy can be expelled if he and a girl keep fewer than "three feet on the floor." But the sight of combustible drinking water and the possibility that fracking is making Hale kids sick turn one student into an unlikely hero in the fight to stop the controversial drilling practice. Winston Crwth, a Scrabble prodigy whose baffling last name rhymes with "truth," knows what it's like to be "fractured," having grown up with his father in Philadelphia and his mother in California. On Winston's comic journey to the Pennsylvania State Scrabble Championship, where he hopes to win an audience with beauty-queen-turned-governor Linda King LaRue, he matches wits with Thomasina Wodtke-Weir, the headmaster's prematurelygray daughter and the most popular (read: only) girl at school; the state poet laureate, whose verse consists of copying out dictionary entries and restroom graffiti; and David Dark, son of the CEO of Dark Oil & Gas, the source of Winston's scholarship money. The Fracking King is a fantastically inventive novel about rowing crew, using all your tiles, and trying to save the world., A novel about boarding school, hardcore Scrabble fanatics, and fracking-a new kind of environmental novel by a spokesman and chief strategist for Common Cause., When the tap water at the Hale Boarding School for Boys bursts into flames, people blame fracking. Life at Hale has always been fraught--the swim test consists of being thrown into the pool with wrists and ankles tied, and a boy can be expelled if he and a girl keep fewer than "three feet on the floor." But the sight of combustible drinking water and the possibility that fracking is making Hale kids sick turn one student into an unlikely hero in the fight to stop the controversial drilling practice. Winston Crwth, a Scrabble prodigy whose baffling last name rhymes with "truth," knows what it's like to be "fractured," having grown up with his father in Philadelphia and his mother in California. On Winston's comic journey to the Pennsylvania State Scrabble Championship, where he hopes to win an audience with beauty-queen-turned-governor Linda King LaRue, he matches wits with Thomasina Wodtke-Weir, the headmaster's prematurely gray daughter and the most popular (read: only) girl at school; the state poet laureate, whose verse consists of copying out dictionary entries and restroom graffiti; and David Dark, son of the CEO of Dark Oil & Gas, the source of Winston's scholarship money. The Fracking King is a fantastically inventive novel about rowing crew, using all your tiles, and trying to save the world.

LC Classification NumberPS3602.R7377F73 2014