The Resource The heart does not grow back : a novel, Fred Venturini
The heart does not grow back : a novel, Fred Venturini
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The item The heart does not grow back : a novel, Fred Venturini represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in The Ferguson Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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- Summary
- "Dale Sampson is used to being a nonperson at his small-town Midwestern high school, picking up the scraps of his charismatic lothario of a best friend, Mack. He comforts himself with the certainty that his stellar academic record and brains will bring him the adulation that evaded him in high school. But when an unthinkable catastrophe tears away the one girl he ever had a chance with, his life takes a bizarre turn as he discovers an inexplicable power: he can regenerate his organs and limbs. When a chance encounter brings him face to face with a girl from his past, he decides that he must use his gift to save her from a violent husband and dismal future. His quest takes him to the glitz and greed of Hollywood, and into the crosshairs of shadowy forces bent on using and abusing his gift. Can Dale use his power to redeem himself and those he loves, or will the one thing that finally makes him special be his demise? The Heart Does Not Grow Back is a darkly comic, starkly original take on the superhero tale, introducing an exceptional new literary voice in Fred Venturini"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Picador Edition.
- Extent
- 312 pages
- Note
-
- "A Picador original"
- "First published under the title Samaritan"--Title page verso
- Isbn
- 9781250052216
- Label
- The heart does not grow back : a novel
- Title
- The heart does not grow back
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Fred Venturini
- Title variation
- Samaritan
- Subject
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- trueMale friendship
- trueLoss (Psychology)
- trueMiddle West
- trueOrgan donors
- trueRedemption
- trueRegeneration (Biology)
- Regeneration (Biology) -- Fiction
- Science fiction
- trueSelf-sacrifice
- trueSmall town life -- Middle West
- trueSuperhuman abilities
- trueYoung men
- Fiction
- trueLife change events
- Life change events -- Fiction
- trueLoneliness
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Dale Sampson is used to being a nonperson at his small-town Midwestern high school, picking up the scraps of his charismatic lothario of a best friend, Mack. He comforts himself with the certainty that his stellar academic record and brains will bring him the adulation that evaded him in high school. But when an unthinkable catastrophe tears away the one girl he ever had a chance with, his life takes a bizarre turn as he discovers an inexplicable power: he can regenerate his organs and limbs. When a chance encounter brings him face to face with a girl from his past, he decides that he must use his gift to save her from a violent husband and dismal future. His quest takes him to the glitz and greed of Hollywood, and into the crosshairs of shadowy forces bent on using and abusing his gift. Can Dale use his power to redeem himself and those he loves, or will the one thing that finally makes him special be his demise? The Heart Does Not Grow Back is a darkly comic, starkly original take on the superhero tale, introducing an exceptional new literary voice in Fred Venturini"--
- Award
- Booklist Editors' Choice: Adult Books for Young Adults, 2014.
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10361386
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Venturini, Fred
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3622.E63
- LC item number
- H43 2014
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Life change events
- Regeneration (Biology)
- Label
- The heart does not grow back : a novel, Fred Venturini
- Note
-
- "A Picador original"
- "First published under the title Samaritan"--Title page verso
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn882738635
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Edition
- First Picador Edition.
- Extent
- 312 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250052216
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Lccn
- 2014015670
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)882738635
- Label
- The heart does not grow back : a novel, Fred Venturini
- Note
-
- "A Picador original"
- "First published under the title Samaritan"--Title page verso
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn882738635
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Edition
- First Picador Edition.
- Extent
- 312 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250052216
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Lccn
- 2014015670
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)882738635
Subject
- trueMale friendship
- trueLoss (Psychology)
- trueMiddle West
- trueOrgan donors
- trueRedemption
- trueRegeneration (Biology)
- Regeneration (Biology) -- Fiction
- Science fiction
- trueSelf-sacrifice
- trueSmall town life -- Middle West
- trueSuperhuman abilities
- trueYoung men
- Fiction
- trueLife change events
- Life change events -- Fiction
- trueLoneliness
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