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The Flight of the Cassowary
Paperback, 298 pages, Random House, List Price: $2.95 | purchase
Book Summary
Sixteen-year-old John finds life in high school and at home increasingly distorted when he becomes obsessed with the parallels between people and animals and starts responding to everything around him according to the laws of nature.
This book is about:
- Emotional problems,
- Schools,
- High schools,
- Family life,
- Fiction
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The narrator of John LeVert's novel is a teenage boy with a keen interest in biology, and a pet theory about evolution: that all the instincts and abilities we possessed as more primitive creatures are still inside us somewhere, waiting to be called to action. His friends and family don't take it very seriously — until he starts accessing those talents: catching and re-catching a fly with froggish reflexes, summoning gazelle-like speed during a football game, and then channeling more... more
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