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When I was five I killed myself / Howard Buten.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Woodstock, NY : Overlook Press, 2000.Description: 191 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 1585670391
Uniform titles:
  • Burt
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.54 21
LOC classification:
  • PS3552.U8245 B8 2000
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction Buten, Howard Available 33111004013864
Total holds: 0

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And to Burt, his parents and teachers seem to be speaking a language he cannot understand. This is Burt's story as written in pencil on the walls of the Quiet Room in the Children's Trust Residence Center, where he lands after expressing his ardent feelings for a classmate. It begins: When I was five I killed myself. Rarely has a child's particular frame of mind been so indelibly set down on the page as in this extraordinary novel. In When I Was Five I Killed Myself, Howard Buten renders with astounding insight and wry language the tale of a young boy testing the boundaries of love and life.

Original title: Burt.

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