Alex Icicle A Romance in Ten Torrid Chapters edition by Robert Kaplow Literature Fiction eBooks
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Has any boy ever loved a girl the way Alex loves Amy? Has there ever been a passion so intense, so ludicrous, so heartbreaking, so funny? Alex is fourteen years old. He’s a sort of literary genius (or so he would like us to believe.) But when he falls under the spell of the thrillingly beautiful and elusive Amy Hart, his world falls to pieces. And she’s moving to California in 26 days! He has got to tell her. He has got to tell her how he feels about her Indian moccasins…her striped socks…her self-mocking smile…the shape of her strong shoulders; the paleness of her face; the petulance of her lower lip; the way her hair falls against her cheek .…
The author of Me and Orson Welles has written a perfectly hilarious portrait of the pain of first love. Alex Icicle A Romance in Ten Torrid Chapters is the director’s cut—revised and restored by the author for a new generation of madmen. Here, at last, is a gloriously uninhibited version of the original 1984 novel, first published by Houghton-Mifflin Co.
From the original reviews
"The funniest American YA novel and one of the finest parodies of Poe's style is Robert Kaplow's Alex Icicle A Romance in Ten Torrid Chapters... Still the funniest adolescent novel around a spoof of books and styles, all without a moment's condescension." — Donelson and Nilsen, Literature for Today's Young Adults
"Deftly imitating the self-conscious vulgarities that callow youth affect to prove their worldliness, Kaplow has written a ribald comedy. The story also, however, evokes a 14-year-old's unrequited love, no laughing matter. "
—Publishers Weekly
"This offbeat book is just plain fun. Parts are so “gross” as to break all canons of good taste with adolescent glee. Be forewarned there is something to offend everyone in its language and subject matter. But the narrator consistently maintains his pompous style an amateurish parody of nineteenth century purple prose. And behind the silliness—the verbal hijinks and self-mockery—is a true depiction of adolescent infatuation 'Sometimes, sometimes, enchanted reader, the lonely frog-prince can win the hand of the princess. It does happen; I know it does. It must.'"
—English Journal
“Kaplow, a contributor of satirical sketches to “Morning Edition” on National Public Radio, is an authentic original in the world of children’s books. He seems to remember with fondness and more than a little bitterness exactly what it was like to be an outsider in the difficult world of adolescence.”
—Northwest
“I thoroughly enjoyed your short novel. It was so full of wonderful feelings, mainly the greatest array of described pain. I commend you and thank you”
—Carl Reiner
Alex Icicle A Romance in Ten Torrid Chapters edition by Robert Kaplow Literature Fiction eBooks
First published in 1984 but newly edited and updated for Kindle, "Alex Icicle" was originally marketed to teen readers but has a playful adult sensibility that kept me rapt and smiling the whole way through. Kaplow is the author of "Me and Orson Welles," the richly imagined (yet historically accurate) coming-of-age story made into a delightful indie movie a few years ago, and while "Alex" might not have the polish and sophistication of "Orson," it's further evidence of Kaplow's unbounded energy and literary prowess.Alex is an awkward but erudite eighth grader with a penchant for melodrama worthy of his beloved Poe, Hamlet and Conan Doyle. Written for the most part in a tortured internal monologue and "torrid" journal entries, his obsessive young love for the unattainable Amy Hart is true and funny and propels the story in surprising ways. The novel brought me straight back to my own junior high school days, and despite the updates and passing references to cell phones, internet and digital media, it's really about a time before all that, when the most crucial interactions took place face to face - at the lunch table, on the bus, outdoors on a warm spring night. And wait 'til you get a load of "the nude scene."
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Alex Icicle A Romance in Ten Torrid Chapters edition by Robert Kaplow Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
This story is the best I've ever read when it comes to describing a pubescent child in love! As an adult, I still like to read it for a good laugh.
There really is nothing like this little book which I've been tagging along with me as I moved from coast to coast and apartment to apartment. It's kind of Lolita meets The Tell-Tale Heart. What's best about it is that it's truthful, painful, and really, really funny. It reads like a cry from the heart.
First published in 1984 but newly edited and updated for , "Alex Icicle" was originally marketed to teen readers but has a playful adult sensibility that kept me rapt and smiling the whole way through. Kaplow is the author of "Me and Orson Welles," the richly imagined (yet historically accurate) coming-of-age story made into a delightful indie movie a few years ago, and while "Alex" might not have the polish and sophistication of "Orson," it's further evidence of Kaplow's unbounded energy and literary prowess.
Alex is an awkward but erudite eighth grader with a penchant for melodrama worthy of his beloved Poe, Hamlet and Conan Doyle. Written for the most part in a tortured internal monologue and "torrid" journal entries, his obsessive young love for the unattainable Amy Hart is true and funny and propels the story in surprising ways. The novel brought me straight back to my own junior high school days, and despite the updates and passing references to cell phones, internet and digital media, it's really about a time before all that, when the most crucial interactions took place face to face - at the lunch table, on the bus, outdoors on a warm spring night. And wait 'til you get a load of "the nude scene."
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