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From Rockaway
From Rockaway | Jill Eisenstadt
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Timmy and Chowderhead and Peg are lifeguards. They spend summers sitting in those tall chairs, smoking dope and staring at the waves, swatting insects, tormenting seagulls. Winters they work shit jobs like unloading trucks at Mickey's Deli. At night, winter and summer, they drink. Drink and get rowdy. Then there's Alex, the girl who gets away, not only from old boyfriend Timmy but also from "Rotaway"-on scholarship to a rich-kid's college in New England. One midsummer night when the four are reunited, tensions erupt in feats of daring and self-destruction during the wild, cathartic, near-sacred lifeguard ritual known as the Death Keg. Brilliantly capturing the restlessness and casual nihilism of working-class youth with no options, Jill Eisenstadt's acclaimed first novel startles in its power and originality, its depth of feeling, its bright and dark comic turns.
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From Rockaway | Jill Eisenstadt
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A great beach read as it‘s set on the beach and is about lifeguards and their partying ways. The ‘Animal House‘ like behaviors of the characters belies the thoughtfulness of the author‘s writing and observations. Intimately though I didn‘t fell in love with this book as I lost patience with the characters‘ lack of ambition and continually making poor life choices.

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Tav
From Rockaway | Jill Eisenstadt
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My 2nd vacation read. It‘s not beach weather but I am loving this novel set in the beach part of my borough, Queens.

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jessberk13
From Rockaway | Jill Eisenstadt
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From Rockaway | Jill Eisenstadt
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I had to buy this book when my friend Mike recommended it to me. He is rarely excited about fiction #, so when he is I must read it. I ordered this used off eBay.

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