Kid Stuff: A Novel

(Hardback)

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It's the summer before the Summer of Love in the 1960s. A small rural town. Beer, fights, boredom, sex. Kid stuff.

With an unwavering eye, Tom Walmsley captures perfectly the essence of small-town kids up to no good, if only because it is the only thing they can know. Fero-cious and unabating, Kid Stuff is a bittersweet opera about a time and place that is both then and now.

Praise for Tom Walmsley:

"Shades reads like a cross-between Jim Thompson and William Peter Blatty. . . a work of squalid genius."--The Globe & Mail

"Shades is a funny, sexy, and inventive read--a vicious social satire in the tradition of Jonathan Swift and William Burroughs."--Books in Canada

Tom Walmsley won the first Three-Day Novel contest in 1979 with his novel Doctor Tin; its sequel, Shades, which also contained the original novel, was published in 1992. He's also the author of the poetry collections Lexington Hero and Rabies; the plays The Jones Boy, Blood and Something Red; and the screenplay of the film Paris, France. He lives in Toronto.

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""Shades is a funny, sexy, and inventive read--a vicious, social satire in the tradition of Jonathan Swift and William Burroughs."

Author Bio

Tom Walmsley won the first Three Day Novel contest in 1979 with his novel Doctor Tin; its sequel, Shades, which also contained the original novel, was published in 1992. He's also the author of the poetry collections Lexington Hero and Rabies, the plays The Jones Boy, Blood, and Something Red, the screenplay of the film Paris, France, and many other things. He lives in Toronto.