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Where Do You Stop?

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Where Do You Stop?

By: Eric Kraft
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 “The title of this sly and extremely funny book is also the title of a paper that Peter is assigned by his science teacher, the luscious, leggy Miss Rheingold. We — and Peter — learn quite a bit about Miss Rheingold, although nowhere near as much as Peter would like. We also learn about epistemology; the boundaries of the self; the building of backyard lighthouses; terrazzo floors; Chinese Checkers; American education; the restricted vision of children (and their parents); and the design of such exquisitely intricate gadgets as the phonograph, the scanning tunneling microscope, the universe, and the novel. . . . “Literary echoes reverberate down the corridors of ‘The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy’—Sterne, Melville, Mark Twain, Proust, Borges, Nabokov, Gabriel Garcia Marquez—but they reverberate lightly, whimsically. Mr. Kraft is his own man, with his own somewhat loopy agenda. He writes an elegant, supple, uncommonly precise prose that glides, silk-smooth, from pathos to parody, from slapstick to sentiment, from the mysteries of moonlight on Bolotomy Bay to the mysteries of particle physics. Toward the end of [this] book, he creates several scenes involving Peter and Ariane, the sultry older sister of Peter’s best friend, Raskol. Each vignette is a perfectly balanced blend of slightly edgy comedy and shrewd observation; and each is also extraordinarily sexy. The unattainable Ariane is breathtakingly desirable, and Peter’s desire — the awful, ecstatic ache of preadolescence — is rendered so artfully that it becomes almost palpable. “In what other novel . . . will you find the instructions, complete with diagram, for constructing a flour bomb? Or a discussion, by a gum-chewing seventh-grade girl, of Zwischenraum, the empty space between the components of an atom? Or a canny analysis of racial prejudice proffered by Porky White, the entrepreneur behind the phenomenally successful Kap’n Klam Family Restaurants? “Like childhood itself, Where Do You Stop? is filled with wonders. It is a book designed to leave its readers — and it deserves many of them — as happy as clams.” Walter Satterthwaite The New York Times Book Review “A magical, funny, healing journey.” Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Warm . . . thought-provoking . . . charming . . . delightful.” Library Journal (starred review) “Mr. Kraft is a splendid, smart, funny, slyly sexy, and insightful writer.” Michael Z. Jody, The East Hampton Star “Luminously intelligent fun.” Time “Goofy and thoroughly enjoyable.” Timothy Hunter, The Cleveland Plain Dealer “Nothing less than an attempt to comprehend the nature of the universe itself.” Michael Upchurch, The Seattle Times & Post-Intelligencer “Hilarious.” Bruce Allen, USA TODAY “Kraft gets better all the time.” Alicia Miller, Chagrin Falls Currents A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR RECOMMENDED BY THE READER’S CATALOG Length: novel, about 66,000 words; 181 pages in the paperback edition Coming of Age Family Life Genre Fiction
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