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Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies

by Tom Perrotta

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Pam said: " Start reading any book that has a first chapter entitled WIENER MAN and you know it is going to be a treat! Such is the case with BAD HAIRCUT.

It's the 1970's and we meet our young preteen narrator, Buddy, who lives in New Jersey with his parents. Bud ...more "

Sep 16, 2023 02:22PM · see review

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