Goats

by Mark Poirier (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2000

  $7.01

  Ellis Whitman is a 14-year-old schoolboy, and his mentor is Goat Man, a dope-smoker who lives in Ellis's mother's pool house and tends goats. Together, the two embark on a trek in Mexico with the goats, but it all gets complicated when a goat is swept into the flooded river, along with Goat Man.

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $3.58

  Ellis is fourteen. His parents have split up - Mom's gone New Age in Tucson with some asshole abstract artist; and Dad - Fucker Frank, is sporting nerdy glasses and retailing Mexican knick-knacks to Washington wannabes. Ellis is about to start at a squaresville boarding-school. It's your standard dysfunctional family thing. Except that Ellis has been hitting the bong since he was eleven, has a goat-man for a guru, and a weed-wisdom beyond his years. Goats is an extra-mellow coming-of-age tale - quirky, touching and very funny. It's about growing up and getting your shit together.