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  • The November Criminals

  • A Novel
  • Written by: Sam Munson
  • Narrated by: Sam Munson
  • Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins

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The November Criminals

Written by: Sam Munson
Narrated by: Sam Munson
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Publisher's Summary

A darkly funny, pot-infused novel of teenage maladjustment in the tradition of Beautiful Children from a compelling new voice in American fiction.

For a high school senior, Addison Schacht has a lot of preoccupations. Like getting into college. Selling drugs to his classmates. His complicated relationship with his best friend (NOT his girlfriend) Digger. And he's just added another to the list: the murder of his classmate Kevin Broadus, and his own absurd, obsessive plan to investigate the death. When presented with an essay question on his application to the University of Chicago - "What are your best and worst qualities?" - Addison finds himself provoked into giving his final, unapologetic say about all of the above and more.

Addison Schacht finds good company among American literature's cadre of unsettled, restless youth, from Huck Finn to Holden Caulfield. The November Criminals takes on the terrain of the classic adolescent truth-telling novel and with nerve and erudition carves out its own unique territory.

©2010 Sam Munson (P)2009 Audible, Inc.

What the critics say

"I don't know Sam Munson personally, so I can't tell you his worst qualities. But I can tell you one of his best: He's a great, funny and original writer. Please accept him." (A. J. Jacobs, New York Times best-selling author of The Year of Living Biblically)
"Debut novelist Munson combines a classic sense of adolescent alienation and a keen comedic voice to depict a bleakly funny teenage wasteland in the wilds of the District of Columbia … deft comic timing and a caustic, ambitious protagonist make this a perfectly valid entry in the teen noir subgenre." ( Kirkus)
"The book has every earmark of a debut: bratty, precocious, tangential, and in love with its own voice, yet Munson ably reminds us why such qualities are irresistible in the first place. " (Booklist)

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