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More Praise for PALO ALTO
“The stories are raw and funny-sad, and they capture with perfect pitch the impossible exhilaration, the inevitable downbeat-ness, and the pure confusion of being an adolescent…. Franco has a flair for creating these stopped moments that lift a story from its specific setting into a universal place, so that particular meanings resonate out from themselves and redouble their effect.”
— Elle
“Delightfully coarse, riffing dialogue that hones in on subjects like race and sex, love and violence …Compelling and gutsy.”
— Vogue
“Franco writes with such deep empathy and affinity that one has to wonder if he lived this life.”
— USA Today
“You’ll be able to pick out Franco’s influences: Raymond Carver’s tight-lipped stoicism; the sun-streaked disaffection of Less Than Zero…Hubert Selby Jr.’s Last Exit to Brooklyn…. He excels at dialogue.”
—Salon.com
“In ‘I Could Kill Someo...
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