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Adam's mother would stand close to the person she was talking to and hold his or her wrists.
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David Schwinghammer
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The kindergarten man's sister sends him back to preschool, where she thinks his mental development stopped. Irving must have been sniffing glue when he wrote this stuff. How am I still reading It?
— Dec 22, 2025 12:11PM
David Schwinghammer
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Paul Goode, a character in the novel, is a filmmaker. THE KINDERGARTEN MAN is one off his works. In the film, two men, or a man and a woman, have been targeting kindergarten classes with children from wealthy families. They take them for ransom.
Irving is all over the place in this book. I didn't remember him doing that in the past.
— Dec 21, 2025 11:38AM
Irving is all over the place in this book. I didn't remember him doing that in the past.
David Schwinghammer
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MOBY DICK frightens the River Benders, but Nana loves it.
— Dec 19, 2025 10:21AM
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Adam's aunts, Martha and Abigail, move his grandmother River Bend, an old folks home, but she has the last laugh.
— Dec 18, 2025 11:28AM
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Adam's mom had a three-way relationship with Adam's older friend Molly and Mr. Barlow.
— Dec 17, 2025 11:44AM
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Mr. Barlow is gay. Nora and Em, two of Adam's best friends, have a comedy routine.
— Dec 16, 2025 12:51PM
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Adam and Mr. Barlow have a confrontation at Penn Station. A man accuses Adam of being a draft dodger.
— Dec 14, 2025 12:37PM
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Adam and Mr. Barlow have a conflict with four guys at Penn Station. Afterwards they kid around. "Four huge guys--all of them communists," Adam told Barlow.
— Dec 13, 2025 11:46AM
David Schwinghammer
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Adam's English teacher,Elliot Barlow, is very short, weighing only 130 lbs. but he had an "interior mischief", "an instinct for confrontation", For instance he liked to dress as a woman and he didn't care who knew it.
— Dec 12, 2025 11:46AM

