Youth in Revolt Compilation, C. D. Payne
Youth in Revolt Compilation, C. D. Payne
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Youth in Revolt (Compilation)
Youth in Revolt, Youth in Bondage, and Youth in Exile

Author: C. D. Payne

Narrator: Richard Powers

Unabridged: 25 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/03/2009

Categories: Fiction, Humorous


Synopsis

Nick Twisp started out an honor student and ended up a fugitive. Youth in Revolt is the three-volume journal of Nick Twisp, California's most precocious diarist, whose ongoing struggles to make sense out of high school, deal with his divorced parents, and lose his virginity result in his transformation from an unassuming fourteen-year-old to a modern youth in open revolt.Youth in RevoltAs his family splinters, worlds collide, and the police block all routes out of town, Nick must cope with economic deprivation, homelessness, the gulag of the public schools, a competitive Type-A father, murderous canines (in triplicate), and an inconvenient hair trigger on his erectile response—all while vying ardently for the affections of the beauteous Sheeni Saunders, teenage goddess and ultimate intellectual goad.Youth in BondageNick Twisp is living in a wasteland with his stingy father while the female object of his fantasies is away at school. But when the FBI picks up his trail, Nick must rely on his tough alter ego, Fran├ºois Dillinger.Youth in ExileHe didn't intend to burn half of Berkeley to the ground or create a media frenzy or enroll in high school dressed as a woman. However, he did, and it was just part of Nick Twisp's quest for sex and independence.He's smart, he's horny, he's resourceful, and he's on the loose.

About C. D. Payne

C. D. Payne is the author of six humorous novels, including Young and Revolting: The Continental Journals of Nick Twisp and Revolting Young: The Journals of Nick Twisp's Younger Brother. A graduate of Harvard, he lives in California.

About Richard Powers

Richard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory, and Bewilderment was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mark on July 21, 2008

"Youth In Revolt" consists of three fictional books, "Youth In Revolt," "Youth In Bondage," and "Youth In Exhale," though I don't believe they were ever published separately. There were, I'm informed, some sections trimmed from each book, however (available in a separate volume), and thank Christ fo......more

Goodreads review by laura lintz on January 26, 2007

the story of nick twisp is a ridiculous homage to a confederacy of dunces. it works, but it would work better if it were a few hundred pages shorter. the doughnut descriptions are to die for.......more

Goodreads review by Jay on April 21, 2012

This had me in stitches the whole time. Great book and really well written.......more

Goodreads review by John on April 03, 2015

Ahh youth. Ahh revolt. Pleasurable read. Probably would have enjoyed it more and certainly would have far better benefited from its wisdom had I read it 20-25 years ago.......more


Quotes

“An unstintingly hilarious black comedy…Has all the earmarks of a classic.” Los Angeles Times

“With an endless supply of barbs and jokes that make him sound older and smoother than he really is, Nick recounts the details of his daily life in this often-hilarious…work. The story becomes more realistic through Paul Michael Garcia’s inspired delivery as he connects with the protagonist, recalling exactly what it was like to be young. The characters, each as annoying yet oddly likable as the last, are delivered by Garcia sounding true to form.” AudioFile

“Youth in Revolt is sophomorically hilarious, appealing to the smart aleck within.” Booklist