Thumbsucker

Thumbsucker
Author :
Publisher : Anchor
Total Pages : 321
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780385497091
ISBN-13 : 0385497091
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Thumbsucker by : Walter Kirn

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 adolescent since Holden Caulfield donned his hunter's cap. For years, no remedy--not orthodontia, not the escalating threats of his father, Mike, a washed-out linebacker turned sporting goods entrepreneur, not the noxious cayenne pepper-based Suk-No-Mor--can cure Justin's thumbsucking habit.Then a course of hypnosis seemingly does the trick, but true to the conservation of neurotic energy, the problem doesn't so much disappear as relocate. Sex, substance abuse, speech team, fly-fishing, honest work, even Mormonism--Justin throws himself into each pursuit with a hyperactive energy that even his daily Ritalin dose does little to blunt.Each time, however, he discovers that there is no escaping the unruly imperatives of his self and the confines of his deeply eccentric family. The only "cure" for the adolescent condition is time and distance.Always funny, sometimes hilariously so, occasionally poignant, and even disturbing, deeply wise on the vexed subject of fathers and sons, Walter Kirn's Thumbsucker is an utterly fresh and all-American take on the painful process of growing up.

Thumbsucker

Thumbsucker
Author :
Publisher : Anchor
Total Pages : 321
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780307829900
ISBN-13 : 0307829901
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis Thumbsucker by : Walter Kirn

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 adolescent since Holden Caulfield donned his hunter's cap. For years, no remedy--not orthodontia, not the escalating threats of his father, Mike, a washed-out linebacker turned sporting goods entrepreneur, not the noxious cayenne pepper-based Suk-No-Mor--can cure Justin's thumbsucking habit.Then a course of hypnosis seemingly does the trick, but true to the conservation of neurotic energy, the problem doesn't so much disappear as relocate. Sex, substance abuse, speech team, fly-fishing, honest work, even Mormonism--Justin throws himself into each pursuit with a hyperactive energy that even his daily Ritalin dose does little to blunt.Each time, however, he discovers that there is no escaping the unruly imperatives of his self and the confines of his deeply eccentric family. The only "cure" for the adolescent condition is time and distance.Always funny, sometimes hilariously so, occasionally poignant, and even disturbing, deeply wise on the vexed subject of fathers and sons, Walter Kirn's Thumbsucker is an utterly fresh and all-American take on the painful process of growing up.

Thumbsucker

Thumbsucker
Author :
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages : 128
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781839978555
ISBN-13 : 1839978554
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis Thumbsucker by : Eliza Fricker

Spoilt. Weirdo. Fussy. Hypochondriac. Chatterbox. Eliza spent her childhood being told she was all of these until her autism diagnosis as an adult revealed why she had experienced the world so differently. But what does it mean to grow up knowing you are different, misunderstood, 'difficult'? Funny, witty and tender, Sunday Times bestselling author and illustrator Eliza Fricker, uses her own memories of growing up in the 80s to explore how neurodiversity presents itself in everyday life and what neurodivergent children really need from the people who love them.

How to Help Children with Common Problems

How to Help Children with Common Problems
Author :
Publisher : Jason Aronson, Incorporated
Total Pages : 451
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781461628828
ISBN-13 : 1461628822
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis How to Help Children with Common Problems by : Charles Schaefer

In this immensely practical manual, two leading child psychologists provide specific, down-to-earth advice for effectively handling the everyday problems of children from early childhood through adolescence.

My Thumb and I

My Thumb and I
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Publisher : Chicago Spectrum Press
Total Pages : 0
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1886094632
ISBN-13 : 9781886094635
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis My Thumb and I by : Carol A. Mayer

Presents a positive program, including activities and worksheets, to help children stop their thumb and finger sucking.

Which Animals Suck Their Thumbs?

Which Animals Suck Their Thumbs?
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Publisher : Booksurge Publishing
Total Pages : 34
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1439207097
ISBN-13 : 9781439207093
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis Which Animals Suck Their Thumbs? by : Kimberly Selzman

Come join little Zachary who stops sucking his thumb in order to go on an adventure discovering animals like tigers and bears and investigating whether or not they suck their thumbs too.

My Thumb

My Thumb
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 32
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780312671204
ISBN-13 : 0312671202
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis My Thumb by : Karen Hesse

Even though she's outgrown other babyish things, a young girl finds she still needs to suck her thumb.

The English Struwwelpeter

The English Struwwelpeter
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 24
Release :
ISBN-10 : OCLC:1110399265
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis The English Struwwelpeter by : Heinrich Hoffmann

Jake's Best Thumb

Jake's Best Thumb
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Publisher : Dutton Juvenile
Total Pages : 40
Release :
ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105131279064
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Jake's Best Thumb by : Ilene Cooper

When Jake goes to kindergarten, a bully teases him about sucking his thumb, but Jake discovers that everyone--even bullies--needs some help being brave.