Palo Alto
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Palo Alto is the debut of a powerful new literary voice. Written with an immediacy and sense of place. Palo Alto traces the lives of an extended group of teenagers as they experiment with vices of all kinds, struggle with their families and one another, and succumb to self-destructive, often heartless nihilism. Franco presents his characters in all their raw humanity, while at the same time providing insight into the teenage mind. In the classic American tradition of story-cycles such as Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, Palo Alto presents a stark, vivid, disturbing, but, above all, compassionate portrait of lives on the rough fringes of youth.
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Well well Franco...For me you come around as a cool person. I enjoy your movies and even your art. But it really isn't necessary to try out ALL forms of art. I don't really know what you're trying to say with these short stories, and I stopped trying to find deeper meaning really fast. All stories are pretty much the same with no outcome. This is easily the worst part. Some start pretty decent and left me thinking “hey this could be something”, but they all end abruptly with no real outcome or closure whatsoever. Although the weird writing style gets slightly better half way through, it still doesn't safe it. I would have tossed this if it wasn't so short. Save your time.