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I was a teenage slasher / Stephen Graham Jones.

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"1989, Lamesa, Texas. A small west Texas town driven by oil and cotton-and a place where everyone knows everyone else's business. So it goes for Tolly Driver, a good kid with more potential than application, seventeen, and about to be cursed to kill for revenge. Here Stephen Graham Jones explores the Texas he grew up in, the unfairness of being on the outside, through the slasher horror he lives but from the perspective of the killer, Tolly, writing his own autobiography. Find yourself rooting for a killer in this summer teen movie of a novel gone full blood-curdling tragic"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781668022245 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 372 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Saga Press hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Saga Press, 2024.
Subject: Blessing and cursing > Fiction.
Indigenous youth > Fiction.
Interpersonal relations > Fiction.
Murderers > Texas > Fiction.
Revenge > Fiction.
Serial murderers > Fiction.
Small cities > Texas > Fiction.
Teenage boys > Fiction.
Teenage girls > Fiction.
Teenagers > Fiction.
Texas, West > Fiction.
Genre: Horror fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Novels.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Lakeshore Branch FIC Jones 31681010381176 FICTION Available -

  • Baker & Taylor
    A good kid in a small Texas town in 1989 finds himself cursed to kill for revenge in true slasher film-style, in the new novel by the New York Times best-selling author of The Only Good Indians. Simultaneous.
  • Baker & Taylor
    "1989, Lamesa, Texas. A small west Texas town driven by oil and cotton-and a place where everyone knows everyone else's business. So it goes for Tolly Driver, a good kid with more potential than application, seventeen, and about to be cursed to kill for revenge. Here Stephen Graham Jones explores the Texas he grew up in, the unfairness of being on the outside, through the slasher horror he lives but from the perspective of the killer, Tolly, writing his own autobiography. Find yourself rooting for a killer in this summer teen movie of a novel gone full blood-curdling tragic"--
  • Simon and Schuster
    *USA TODAY Bestseller * Alex Award Winner *

    From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a “viciously clever” (The New York Times Book Review) classic slasher story with a twist—perfect for fans of Adam Cesare and Grady Hendrix.

    1989, Lamesa, Texas. A small town driven by oil and cotton—and a place where everyone knows everyone else’s business. So it goes for Tolly Driver, a good kid with more potential than application, seventeen, and about to be cursed to kill for revenge. Here Stephen Graham Jones explores the Texas he grew up in, and shared sense of unfairness of being on the outside through the slasher horror Jones loves, but from the perspective of the killer, Tolly, writing his own autobiography. Find yourself rooting for a killer in this “playful, self-aware, and remarkably gory horror novel” (The New York Times).

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