Skipped Parts

by Tim Sandlin

Book Overview

An amusing new novel by the author of "Social Blunders". It's 1963 and 13-year-old Sam Callahan and his tart-tongued, divorced, misbehaving mother, Lydia, must cope as best they can, after they are banished to the hick town of GroVont, Wyoming, by Lydia's Southern gentleman father. "Funny, shocking, downright revolting, and occasionally sad".--"Los Angeles Times Book Review".

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805010866
• ISBN13: 9780805010862
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Funny, quirky, sometimes sad, but always fun to read

I picked this book up on a whim and I am very glad that I did. I also read the other 2 books in this trilogy but I think that this one is the best of the 3. It deals with coming of age in a humorous and often poignant way. All the characters here are well-drawn and very engaging. I loved getting to know them. For all the humor in the book, it also manages to be sad sometimes as it deals with issues we all face in life. Life is hard sometimes, and it can also be fun, as Tim Sandlin teaches us.

Favorite book of all time!

Consider yourself lucky if you've just happened upon this page. Tim Sandlin's GroVont triology is funny, touching and even more funny. I'm talking laugh out loud funny. I'm quite jealous of people that get to read Sandlin for the 1st time...it's an awesome experience. Enjoy!

A Picture Perfect Read

Wow! That's the best way to describe Tim Sandlin's SKIPPED PARTS. I had heard nothing of the book or its author When i grabbed it off the shelf in a flurry of book buying a couple months ago. Boy, what a treat it turned out to be! I quickly went out and bought the remaining 2 books in the GroVont trilogy and they were ALL outstanding. I've read a good share of books, and i haven't seen characters with this much depth and who were so likealbe (even when they do stupid things)in any other novel in recent memory. Cheers to Sandlin and his great work!

GREAT (If you're not offened by graphic teen sex)

The worst thing about this book was that I didn't own its sequel, so I could start reading it immediately after finishing SKIPPED PARTS. This book's main character, Sam Callahan, is a sexually active Holden Caufield. It satirizes hick life, but no more than it mocks the people who deem them hicks. Tim Sandlin captures the curious voice of a thirteen-year-old, frightfully perfectly. I would recommend this book in a heartbeat. But don't buy only one of the trilogy's books, buy all three of you'll be aching for more without any thing to appease your craving