The Worst Years of Your Life: Stories for the Geeked-Out, Angst-Ridden, Lust-Addled, and Deeply Misunderstood Adolescent in All of Us

by Mark Jude Poirier

Book Overview

A delightful and terrifying collection of twenty short stories, edited by critically acclaimed writer and novelist Mark Jude Poirier.

Adolescence. Fortunately it's over with early and once you've finished paying for therapy, there's still a chance to move on with your life.

The Worst Years of Your Life says it all: angst, depression, growing pains, puberty, nasty boys and nastier girls; these are stories of aaawkwardness and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416549269
• ISBN13: 9781416549260
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Entertaining Anthology

This anthology isn't the book you pick up when you're attempting to be intellectual, but it does meaningfully prompt you to rethink how you behaved during those awkward years of middle school and early high school. The variety of authors bring up the angst, discomfort, shame, euphoria, and innocence through authentic story lines, some I suspect are borderline memoir and have no doubt happened to countless adolescents. Enjoy this book with your Care Bear pajamas and a heavy appreciation that you are past those "worst years of your life."

*mark jude poirier is an awesome editor and writer!*

This anthology is proof that Mark Poirier is an incredible, quirky and wonderful human being. I want to read everything he has written or edited. I will be the first in line when his new movie "Smart People," is released. I want to skateboard wth him...