King Dork

Author: Frank Portman

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  • : $16.95 AUD
  • : 9780141322803
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
  • : Puffin Books
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  • : 0.33
  • : 31 July 2007
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 26mm
  • : United Kingdom
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  • : Frank Portman
  • : Paperback
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  • : 352
  • : Fiction
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Barcode 9780141322803
9780141322803

Description

Tom Henderson is small,skinny and awkward.He pretty much feels like and idiot most of the time,but when he discovers his father's copy "The Catcher in the Rye",it changes his world.

Reviews

'King Dork is well and away the best YA book I've read this year and Frank Portman is definitely someone to watch out for. It's inventive and sexy, it's fun to read and provides endless food for thought -- everything I want from a book' Melvin Burgess

Author description

Frank Portman (aka Dr. Frank) is the singer/songwriter/guitarist of the influential US punk band the Mr. T Experience (MTX). MTX has released around a dozen albums since forming in the mid-eighties and continues to record and tour. King Dork is his first novel.