Description
Moving, wholly involving, original, and emotionally true, You Don't Know Me is a multilayered young adult novel that presents a winning portrait of an understandably angst-ridden adolescent.
John (My father named me after a toilet!) wrestles with the certainty that no one really knows him -- not in his miserable home, and certainly not at school. It's true that no one can guess his hidden thoughts, which are hilarious, razor-sharp observations about lust, love, tubas, algebra, everything. And then there's his home: his father ran off years ago, so he's being raised by his mother, who works long hours, and by her boyfriend, whom John calls the man who is not and never will be my father. This man is his enemy, an abusive disciplinarian who seems to want to kill John and, in a horrible final confrontation, nearly succeeds.Author: David Klass
Publisher: Square Fish
Published: 09/14/2010
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.46w x 0.76d
ISBN13: 9780312653026
ISBN10: 0312653026
BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes | Physical & Emotional Abuse (see also Social
- Young Adult Fiction | Family | Blended Families
About the Author
David Klass is the author of many young adult novels, including You Don't Know Me, Losers Take All, and Grandmaster. He is also a Hollywood screenwriter, having written more than twenty-five action screenplays, including Kiss the Girls, starring Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd; Walking Tall, starring The Rock; and Desperate Measures, starring Michael Keaton and Andy Garcia.