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Del has spent 17 years bouncing among foster homes. Smart, sharp-tongued, a master mimic, shes fed up with her world and with being Del. Faking her own death, she leaves both herself and L.A. behind until her escape lands her in an all-day traffic jam. Fast-forward eight years. Its opening night for the one-woman play shes written and is starring in a show called Breakout, about a Los Angeles traffic jam. Wildly funny, she skewers workaholics, road ragers, pickup artists, and car culture in general. Readers will see what her audience cant that the show is a portrait of herself, of her hunger for her mother and her terror of rejection, her free-floating identity and yearning for connection. Flashing between Dels present and future, Breakout gives us a backstage pass into a young playwrights psyche, letting us watch her life being transformed into an art, heartache into comedy, solitude into community, and anger gradually giving way to acceptance.

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Book category Books in English Children's, Teenage & educational Children's / Teenage fiction & true stories

• Full title: Breakout
• Author: FLEISCHMAN PAU
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 160
• EAN: 9780812626964
• ISBN: 9780812626964
• ID: 06572903
• Publisher: Cricket Books, a division of Carus Publishing Co
• Weight: 269 g
• Dimensions: 209 × 139 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. July 2003

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