Tim Tharp

The Spectacular Now Tim Tharp

Marc Notes: Unabridged.; Title from container.; Compact discs.; Read by MacLeod Andrews.; In the last months of high school, charismatic eighteen-year-old Sutter Keely lives in the present, staying drunk or high most of the time, but that could change when he starts working to boost the self-confidence of a classmate, Aimee. Review Citations: School Library Journal 01/01/2010 pg. 61 (EAN 9781423399636, Compact Disc) - *Starred Review Horn Book Magazine 05/01/2010 pg. 116 (EAN 9781423399636, Compact Disc) ALA Audiobooks for YA 03/01/2010 pg. 32 (EAN 9781423399629, Compact Disc) Audio File 06/01/2010 pg. 59 (EAN 9781423399629, Compact Disc) - *Starred Review Kirkus Review - Children 10/15/2008 pg. 1125 (EAN 9780375951794, Library Binding) Booklist 11/15/2008 pg. 39 (EAN 9780375951794, Library Binding) School Library Journal 12/01/2008 pg. 140 (EAN 9780375951794, Library Binding) Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 02/01/2009 (EAN 9780375951794, Library Binding) - *Starred Review Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2009 (EAN 9780375951794, Library Binding) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2009 pg. 109 (EAN 9780375951794, Library Binding) ALA Best Books Young Adults 03/15/2009 pg. 16 (EAN 9780375951794, Library Binding) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2011 pg. 1072 (EAN 9780375951794, Library Binding) Kirkus Review - Children 10/15/2008 pg. 1125 (EAN 9780375851797, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 11/17/2008 pg. 59 (EAN 9780375851797, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Booklist 11/15/2008 pg. 39 (EAN 9780375851797, Hardcover) School Library Journal 12/01/2008 pg. 140 (EAN 9780375851797, Hardcover) Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 02/01/2009 (EAN 9780375851797, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2009 (EAN 9780375851797, Hardcover) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2009 pg. 109 (EAN 9780375851797, Hardcover) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2011 pg. 1072 (EAN 9780375851797, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Tharp, Tim Tim Tharp lives in Oklahoma, where he writes novels and teaches in Humanities Department at Rose State College. In addition to earning a master's degree in creative writing from Brown University, he has also spent time as a factory hand, construction laborer, psychiatric aide, record store clerk, and long-distance hitchhiker. Tharp is the author of Falling Dark, for which he won the Milkweed National Fiction Prize, and Knights of the Hill Country, his first novel for young adults, which was an ALA-YALSA Best Book for Young Adults in 2007. Contributor Bio:  Andrews, MacLeod MacLeod Andrews is an actor, voice actor, and audiobook narrator. The narrator of more than one hundred audiobooks, he is a company member of Rising Phoenix Repertory in Los Angeles.