AUTOFLICK. A STUDY OF WHALES AND CIGARETTES THAT BECAME A NOVEL - Tecno-Libro

AutoFlick: A Study of Whales and Cigarettes That Became a Novel, is a contemporary novel centered on the first-person narrative of a 16-year young man trying to come of age in the summer of 1968. And then trying again in the autumn of 2002. Winner of 2017 Ben Franklin Silver Award for Best First Book (Fiction) isaac Yardley did not know what he was getting into when he and his father started chasing after people who threw cigarettes from cars. He did not know this fanciful research project would lead to his transformation from over-ripe Boy Scout to entry-level hippie. Along the way, he is gassed at an anti-poverty demonstration in Washington, DC, caught skinny-dipping, befriended by an eccentric entrepreneur, inspired by the history of the Delaware Canal, stumbles into an unwitting windfall at a race track, and is surprised how effortlessly his parents help a kid tripping on LSD at the New York City showing of Magical Mystery Tour. But he might h