YOUTH IN REVOLT: REVIEW AND "QUICKIE" GIVEAWAY

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YOUTH IN REVOLT
BY C. D. PAYNE

ABOUT THE BOOK:

The hilarious, take-no-prisoners novel about a cynical, sex-obsessed teenager's pining love for an intelligent girl– now a major motion picture from Dimension Films starring Michael Cera!

Theatrical Release:

Friday, January 8, 2010

Starring:

• Michael Cera
• Steve Buscemi
• Ray Liotta
• Jean Smart
• M. Emmet Walsh

Directed by:

• Gusti Nash

SIX MONTHS IN THE LIFE OF THE WORLD'S MOST DANGEROUS TEENAGER

Youth in Revolt, the book, is the journals of Nick Twisp, California's most precocious diarist, whose ongoing struggles to make sense out of high school, deal with his divorced parents, and lose his virginity result in his transformation from an unassuming fourteen-year-old to a modern youth in open revolt. As his family splinters, worlds collide, and the police block all routes out of town, Nick must cope with economic deprivation, homelessness, the gulag of the public schools, a competitive type-A father, murderous canines, and an inconvenient hair trigger on his erectile response–all while vying ardently for the affections of the beauteous Sheeni Saunders, teenage goddess and ultimate intellectual goad.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

C. D. Payne is an America writer of absurdist fiction and is also the author of the novels Youth in Revolt, Civic Beauties, Cut to the Twisp, Frisco Pigeon Mambo, Young and Revolting, and Revoltingly Young, all of which he has successfully self-published. He lives in Sonoma County.

REVIEW:

The main character, Nick Twisp, is a 14-year-old teen living with his divorcee mother in the slum area of Oakland around 1993. As a teen who struggles constantly with his ever-changing body as well as his emotional life, he is portrayed humorously and fairly realistically . He doesn't get along well with his mother, and certainly has no respect for her boyfriend. Nick is at that point in his life where his physical urges are mostly uncontrollable, which the author uses to add great humor for the reader. He is a completely, outrageous young man who seems to be portrayed beyond any possible reality. However, saying that, he is completely convincing as a repressed genius, unsure about religion, has a sister who he has no contact with, and a father who is lazy, doesn't pay his child support and only cares about younger women. Of course, all this doesn't matter when Nick meets Sheeni Saunders near Ukiah at a lakeside trailer park. He is immediately smitten. The adventures that follow in pursuit of Sheeni are funny and you do find yourself laughing out loud quite a bit. Twisp's thoughts about life, sex, Sheeni, sex, his family, sex, how to get the girl, and yes, sex...get the picture?....portray this amusing young man so well and remind us of someone we probably have known in our own lifetime. I think younger readers will really find this book hilarious and older readers will chuckle at Nick's antics. Many may even be able to identify with Nick somewhat. I don't think VERY young readers should read this but if you are a parent, you will have to judge it according to your standards for your own child. For the most part, this was a good read for sheer enjoyment and would play well with high school students and adults because Nick's escapades are relateable for most people as well as fun.

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