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1. www.amazon.com › Thumbsucker-Novel-Walter-Kirn › dpThumbsucker: A Novel: Kirn, Walter: 9780385497091: Amazon.com ...

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   Oct 19, 1999 · Justin's mouth just won't quit: beer, decongestants, nitrous oxide, cough syrup, Midol, and Ritalin go in, and out spritzes hilarious commentary on his eccentric yet authentic life and times. Our hero's mood larks and plunges erratically, but Kirn's prose is alert, artful, under control.

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3. www.goodreads.com › book › showThumbsucker by Walter Kirn | Goodreads

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   Oct 19, 1999 · Walter Kirn. 3.46. 1,321 ratings123 reviews. This eighties-centric, Ritalin-fueled, pitch-perfect comic novel by a writer to watch brings energy and originality to the classic Midwestern coming-of-age story.Meet Justin Cobb, "the King Kong of oral obsessives" (as his dentist dubs him) and the most appealingly bright and screwed-up fictional ...

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4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Thumbsucker_(novel)Thumbsucker (novel) - Wikipedia

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   Thumbsucker is a 1999 novel by Walter Kirn. It was adapted into a film of the same name by Mike Mills in 2005. Plot introduction. Kirn's novel tells the story of Justin Cobb, a Minnesota teenager whose family experiences a broad spectrum of dysfunction.

5. www.kirkusreviews.com › book-reviews › walter-kirnTHUMBSUCKER | Kirkus Reviews

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   Nov 1, 1999 · A funny and engagingly original portrayal of adolescence in eruption: an accomplished second novel from the author of My Hard Bargain (1990) and She Needed Me (1992) who has also made his mark as a prominent freelance reviewer.

6. www.penguinrandomhouse.com › books › 93298Thumbsucker by Walter Kirn: 9780385497091 ...

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   This eighties-centric, Ritalin-fueled, pitch-perfect comic novel by a writer to watch brings energy and originality to the classic Midwestern coming-of-age...

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7. www.publishersweekly.com › 9780385497091Thumbsucker by Walter Kirn - Publishers Weekly

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   Dark and witty, novelist (She Needed Me) and book critic Kirn's narrative of demoralized 1980s suburbia chronicles the coming-of-age of Justin Cobb, a 14-year-old who develops a series of...

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   Oct 19, 1999 · Thumbsucker: A Novel. Walter Kirn. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Oct 19, 1999 - Fiction - 320 pages. This eighties-centric, Ritalin-fueled, pitch-perfect comic novel by a writer to watch...