Hard Love

Name: Hard Love
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ISBN: 9780689841545

ISBN-10: 068984154X

ISBN-13: 9780689841545

Edition: 1999 (Reprint)

Authors: Ellen Wittlinger

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Since his parents' divorce, John's mother hasn't touched him, her new fiancé wants them to move away, and his father would rather be anywhere than at Friday night dinner with his son. It's no wonder John writes articles like "Interview with the Stepfather" and "Memoirs from Hell." The only release he finds is in homemade zines like the amazing Escape Velocity by Marisol, a self-proclaimed "Puerto Rican Cuban Yankee Lesbian." Haning around the Boston Tower Records for the new issue of Escape Velocity, John meets Marisol and a hard love is born. While at first their friendship is based on zines, dysfuntional families, and dreams of escape, soon both John and Marisol begin to shed their…

Book details

List price: $12.99
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Publication date: 4/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Ellen Wittlinger has an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and is the author of several young adult novels, including Hard Love, Razzle, and The Long Night of Leo and Bree. She lives in Massachusetts.