"[Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack!] will make you cry . . . full of wit and wisdom and an astonishing immediacy that comes from spare, honest writing. Many writers try to characterize the peculiar poignancy and the terrible hilarity of adolescence. Few succeed as well as M. E. Kerr." -The New York Times "The characters ring true, every one; the dialogue has vitality and humor; the book has an integrity of conception that is a solid base for the sophistication of its wit and humor." -Chicago Tribune "This author's talent is abundantly evident. . . . Wildly humorous and, at the same time, touching." -Publishers Weekly "Kerr's honesty, evident respect and consistently on-target wit will keep Dinky's contemporaries laughing and nodding agreement." -Kirkus Reviews, starred review
M. E. Kerr's first novel-hailed by the New York Times as a "timely, compelling" and "brilliantly funny" look at adolescence and friendship It was bad enough that they had to move to Brooklyn-Brooklyn Heights, as Tucker Woolf's dad instructs him to tell everyone after he loses his job. Now his father has suddenly developed an allergy to Tucker's cat, Nader, a nine-month-old calico Tucker found underneath a Chevrolet. Tucker's beloved pet finds a new home with overweight, outrageous Susan "Dinky" Hocker, the only person to answer Tucker's ad. As Tucker starts paying regular visits to Dinky's house to check up on Nader, his life begins to change. Dinky introduces Tucker to her strange cousin, Natalia Line, a compulsive rhymer whom Tucker finds fascinating. And enter P. John Knight, who's fat like Dinky . . . and now, like Nader. With this odd cast of characters, a little world is created for big kids who need to go on diets. And who also, all of them, need to find out who they are. A story of friendship, self-image, and surviving adolescence, Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack! is also about the terror-and exhilaration-of daring to be yourself.
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