Volume 30, Number 5 · March 31, 1983

Growing Pains

By Josh Rubins
The Breaks
by Richard Price

Simon and Schuster, 446 pp., $15.95

Young guy—at loose ends, just out of college (or high school)—bops around aimlessly. Fights with his folks, tries to recapture that campus (or adolescent) glow, has a messy love affair. Makes a self-discovery or two. Eventually pulls himself together. Lots of laughs, lots of sex, lots of Angst.



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