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Half his age : a novel / Jennette McCurdy.

Summary:

"Waldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt. Naive. Wise. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry. Forceful. Hurting. Perceptive. Endlessly wanting. And the thing she wants most of all: Mr. Korgy, her creative writing teacher with the wife and the kid and the mortgage and the bills, with the dead dreams and the atrophied looks and the growing paunch. She doesn't know why she wants him. Is it his passion? His life experience? The fact that he knows books and films and things that she doesn't? Or is it purer than that, rooted in their unlikely connection, their kindred spirits, the similar filter with which they each take in the world around them? Or, perhaps, it's just enough that he sees her when no one else does. Startlingly perceptive, mordantly funny, and keenly poignant, Half His Age is a rich character study of a yearning seventeen-year-old who disregards all obstacles -- or attempts to overcome them -- in her effort to be seen, to be desired, to be loved" -- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593723739
  • ISBN: 0593723732
  • Physical Description: 276 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, [2026]
Subject:
Teenage girls > Fiction.
Coming of age > Fiction.
Married men > Fiction.
Middle-aged men > Fiction.
Man-woman relationships > Fiction.
Teacher-student relationships > Fiction.
May-December romances > Fiction.
Anchorage (Alaska) > Fiction.
Genre:
Black humor.

Available copies

  • 43 of 79 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 0 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

Holds

  • 6 current holds with 79 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Sneads Ferry Branch Library FIC MCCURDY (Text) 36015000776001 Adult New Fiction Checked out 08/16/2026