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02277aam a2200373Ii 4500 001 7D894FDE300611EDA406B4E81FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220909010236 008 210623s2021 iau 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1736589725 020 $a 9781736589724 035 $a (OCoLC)1257444467 040 $a KAY $b eng $e rda $c KAY $d KAY $d SILO 082 04 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Arms, Gary, $e author. 245 10 $a Jack DeWitt is clueless : $b a novel / $c by Gary Arms. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a [Dubuque, Iowa] : $b Draca Publishing, $c 2021. 300 $a 271 pages ; $c 22 cm 500 $a Signed by author. 500 $a Author Gary Arms is a Dubuque playwright and retired Clarke University literature professor. 520 $a "Jack DeWitt is Clueless is a classic coming of age story set in the backdrop of the 1960s. Jack experiences the beginning of the decade as a junior high student growing up in a Midwestern factory town. He loves books. He hates sports. He's not sure girls like him. And then he has this pimple situation. Through Jack, we experience the main events of the early 1960s: the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam war and the protests it engendered, the assassination of JFK, the influence of Martin Luther King Jr., and the songs of the Beatles and Motown. Jack also experiences monumental events closer to home. The house belonging to the only black family living in Jack's neighborhood burns down in the middle of the night. The fire was obviously caused by arson, but the police hardly bother to investigate it. Exactly one year later, the white man suspected of setting the fire is found murdered in his garage, his head smashed in with a hammer."-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Junior high school students $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Nineteen sixties $v Fiction. $9 257678 650 0 $a Race relations $v Fiction. $9 198698 650 0 $a Racism $v Fiction. $9 218528 651 0 $a Middle West $v Fiction. $9 215308 651 0 $a Dubuque (Iowa) $x Authors. $9 199039 655 7 $a Bildungsromans. $2 lcgft $9 802162 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft $9 802185 941 $a 1 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909064650.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7D894FDE300611EDA406B4E81FECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b KAYInitiate Another SILO Locator Search