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Wakefield
By Codrescu, Andrei
- ISBN
- 978-1-56512-372-4
- Publisher
- Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2004.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on August 1, 2004
Adult/High School Wakefield, a travel writer and motivational speaker, is having a regular day when the Devil, horns and all, knocks at his door and tells him his time is up. After he pleads to avoid the afterlife, the two strike a Faustian deal. He has one year to find the true meaning of life. And so the story continues with a grand tour of the United States as Wakefield moves from speaking job to speaking job, pondering life's purpose. This late-1990s U.S. is populated by angry artists...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
