The Christmas Kid
Casey Rickert is in trouble. He's just lost his plane ticket back home to Kansas City in an unfriendly poker game. he has a Lit paper due on a book he's never read, and on top of everything else, even though he took off finals week to go surfing, his cutback still hasn't improved. But Casey's talent for getting into and out of trouble has earned him the nickname "The Wizard," and he views this latest assortment of predicaments merely as opportunities for yet another brilliant recovery. Lately, though, Casey's predilection for trouble seems to be outstripping even his own marvelously cosmic equilibrium. His brother Davy's death almost a year ago upended Casey's world and left him shaken, vulnerable, and hurtling from one disaster to the next. Wandering through Santa Barbara in a desperate attempt to get home, Casey's chance impersonation of Santa Claus opens up to him a hidden world of goodwill toward men, unanswered Christmas wishes, and beard itch. Still wearing the Santa suit, Casey embarks on a redemptive journey from Los Angeles to Kansas City, rediscovering kindness, hope, and love from the people he meets along the way.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0312266634
ISBN13:9780312266639
Release Date:November 2001
Publisher:Thomas Dunne Books
Length:224 Pages
Weight:0.82 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.8" x 8.6"
Customer Reviews
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The Christmas Kid - Unbelievably believable
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
Reading the blurbs on the jacket cover, my cynical self said Theauthor has a lot of friends! A third of the way into the story,I felt they had grossly understated the book!It IS fantastic...how can so many things happen so quickly to oneperson, and lead to such adventuress? But they do, and the reader is totally involved in the consequences for Casey, thereluctant college kid who friends call the Wizard. In your mind, you agonize with him, scold him for not havilng bettersense, and believe in him as he hurdles the next step in hisChristmas trip home to Kansas from California.Michael Allin has created for the reader a charismatic protagon-ist who, on his circuitious joourney east encounters some far-outcharacters, good and bad, from whom he gains a bit of insight about his own self, and his own abilities.It's great reading, and when you realize you've reached the end,you long for more of Casey, the Wizard.
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