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The Lesser Blessed Paperback | Pages: 128 pages
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Original Title: The Lesser Blessed: A Novel
ISBN: 1550545256 (ISBN13: 9781550545258)
Edition Language: English
Literary Awards: Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for Jugendbuch (2001)

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A fresh, funny look at growing up Native in the North, by award-winning author Richard Van Camp. Larry is a Dogrib Indian growing up in the small northern town of Fort Simmer. His tongue, his hallucinations and his fantasies are hotter than the sun. At sixteen, he loves Iron Maiden, the North and Juliet Hope, the high school "tramp." When Johnny Beck, a Metis from Hay River, moves to town, Larry is ready for almost anything. In this powerful and often very funny first novel, Richard Van Camp gives us one of the most original teenage characters in fiction. Skinny as spaghetti, nervy and self-deprecating, Larry is an appealing mixture of bravado and vulnerability. His past holds many terrors: an abusive father, blackouts from sniffing gasoline, an accident that killed several of his cousins. But through his friendship with Johnny, he’s ready now to face his memories—and his future. Marking the debut of an exciting new writer, The Lesser Blessed is an eye-opening depiction of what it is to be a young Native man in the age of AIDS, disillusionment with Catholicism and a growing world consciousness. A coming-of-age story that any fan of The Catcher in the Rye will enjoy.

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Title:The Lesser Blessed
Author:Richard Van Camp
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Anniversary Edition
Pages:Pages: 128 pages
Published:April 6th 2004 by Douglas & McIntyre (first published 1996)
Categories:Fiction. Cultural. Canada. Young Adult. Contemporary

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One of the best Canadian storytellers, and children book author. His novel is nothing but brilliant and tells the story that few of us are ever exposed to of a Dogrib teen growing up in a Northern town.

Beautiful and bleak. Having lived in norther Saskatchewan this work really resonated with me.

This book is now 20 years old but still a relevant book and in my opinion, a high school must read. I really connected with Larry, who haunted by the past choices, dreams about about a classmates and eventually becomes with with the class rebel.Scarred mentally and physically Larry must navigate through life pining for a girl, wishing his mom would make a commitment to her boyfriend and understanding his friend.I really loved this book but my wish was that it had been longer as I wanted to know

This book was the most honest, to the human nature, that I have read in a long time. I love of Richard Van Camp portrays the honest thoughts and emotions of a deeply wounded teen. Not every teen gets to live in a fantasy world, for they aren't vampires or werewolves. I like just how honest and raw this whole book is, up till the end. I would ,and have, recommended this book to others.

Really glad to be reading this book for the very first time. It's extraordinarily good.

So I've been trying to think of a better word than "feverish" to describe the feeling of reading this book, because I think that word is trite and cliche.. but I really can't. It's fitting; especially because this book has a good amount of drug use and therefore drug-induced haziness and it thus feels kind of deluded and cloudy. Which is apt because, this is a book that deals with adolescence, which is fitting to be portrayed as being a confusing, disorienting, druggy, kind of time.That style

Sometimes I when I finish a book I am reminded that this is the reason I even read books at all. This book is one of the most masterful pieces of fiction I have ever read or seen. This is a revelation. This is a masterpiece. I met Richard Van Camp about six years ago, at the Strathcona Branch of the Edmonton Public Library. I used the library as an office, and sat in the same cubicle area almost every week day. Every few weeks, I would be there at the same time as Van Camp, who would be