{"id":591,"date":"2009-11-08T21:39:40","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T02:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rainbowlist.wordpress.com\/?p=591"},"modified":"2009-11-08T21:39:40","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T02:39:40","slug":"tales-of-the-madman-underground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/archives\/591","title":{"rendered":"Tales of the Madman Underground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-592\" title=\"madman underground\" src=\"http:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/madman-underground.jpg?w=225\" alt=\"madman underground\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/madman-underground.jpg 375w, https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/madman-underground-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><strong>Barnes, John.\u00a0 <em>Tales of the Madman Underground:\u00a0 An Historical Romance 1973. <\/em>2009.\u00a0 532p.\u00a0 Viking, $18.99.\u00a0 (978-0-670-06081-8).\u00a0 Gr. 9-12.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Karl Shoemaker\u2019s goal as a senior is to be normal and separate himself from his therapy group that started in fourth grade.\u00a0 But can he deal with his alcoholic, hippy widowed mother who keeps stealing his earning from his five jobs, and can he keep the friends he made in the Madman Underground group if he doesn\u2019t attend the group anymore?\u00a0 The wealth of details in this hilarious noir novel comes from the characters and the disastrous events in Karl\u2019s life as he copes with all the pieces of his life.\u00a0 He feels responsible for his friends who need to find a place to sleep because they are locked up or afraid of being beaten or sexually abused.\u00a0 One of his tasks is to protect his gay friend, Paul, when he solicits males for money in nearby Toledo.\u00a0 The reader feels as overwhelmed as Karl in this timeless coming-of-age epic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barnes, John.\u00a0 Tales of the Madman Underground:\u00a0 An Historical Romance 1973. 2009.\u00a0 532p.\u00a0 Viking, $18.99.\u00a0 (978-0-670-06081-8).\u00a0 Gr. 9-12. Karl Shoemaker\u2019s goal as a senior is to be normal and separate himself from his therapy group that started in fourth grade.\u00a0 But can he deal with his alcoholic, hippy widowed mother who keeps stealing his earning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[116,228],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","tag-john-barnes","tag-tales-of-the-madman-underground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}