Writing as self-presentation
Shakespeare records his senior year through a required memoir project and several written forms, hoping the work may bring respect and admiration.
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Jake Wizner - Author
This is a deliberately irreverent coming-of-age novel about turning embarrassing experiences into writing. Its comic voice may offer recognition to readers who feel socially awkward, but it includes frank references to sexual subjects and bodily functions.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a deliberately irreverent coming-of-age novel about turning embarrassing experiences into writing. Its comic voice may offer recognition to readers who feel socially awkward, but it includes frank references to sexual subjects and bodily functions.
Shakespeare records his senior year through a required memoir project and several written forms, hoping the work may bring respect and admiration.
The narration includes increasingly blunt sexual thoughts, masturbation, pornography references, erections, bowel humour and drug or alcohol use.
Consider whether the book’s jokes make embarrassment feel manageable or instead make other people’s discomfort into entertainment. Sexual references, masturbation, pornography, drug and alcohol use, and graphic bowel humour may merit attention.
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