Research Catalog

Title

236 pounds of class vice president : a memoir of teenage insecurity, obesity, and virginity / Jason Mulgrew.

Author

Mulgrew, Jason.

Publication

New York : Harper Perennial, c2013.

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Details

Description

200, 25 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

"When Jason Mulgrew enrolls in a private high school in an exciting new neighborhood (North Philly, murder center of the city), he finds himself displaced into a world of privilege and strict standards. His classmates, whose parents are lawyers and bankers, live in houses with yards and pools. Mulgrew, whose longshoreman father bought him a motorcycle upon completion of his driver's test, struggles to relate in this wider world, fighting his way through the gauntlet of high school as an awkward, sexless giant. Mulgrew tackles the glorious complications, misapprehensions, and obsessions of the teenage mind. He revisits his unhealthy fixations on dogs, his 'bird,' the Prep, friends who are girls, Kahlúa & Cream, and a certain position in student body government to craft yet another raunchy, honest, and relentlessly funny memoir."--from cover, p. [4]

Alternative Title

• Two hundred thirty-six pounds of class vice president
• Two hundred and thirty-six pounds of class vice president

Subjects

• High school boys > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Biography
• Authors > Biography
• Mulgrew, Jason > Childhood and youth

Genre/Form

• Autobiographies
• Biographies
• Autobiographies.

Note

• Includes insights, interviews and more.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : dishonest brokers -- The first moment : Begin and Palestinian autonomy in 1982 -- The second moment : the Madrid-Washington negotiations, 1991-93 -- The third moment: Barack Obama and Palestine, 2009-12 -- Conclusion : Israel's lawyer.

ISBN

• 9780062080837 (pbk.)
• 0062080830 (pbk.)

OCLC

826902706

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library