TY - BOOK ID - 77904190 TI - Yates Paul, his grand flights, his tootings PY - 2002 SN - 0813158702 9780813158709 0813190355 9780813190358 PB - Lexington University Press of Kentucky DB - UniCat KW - Fathers and sons KW - Teenage boys UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77904190 AB - James Baker Hall's blackly comic coming-of-age novel has been denied, by unfortunate circumstances surrounding its original 1964 publication, its rightful place alongside classics such as Catcher in the Rye and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in the canon of essential late-twentieth-century American fiction. Set in Lexington, Kentucky, the story unfolds through the eyes of thirteen-year-old Yates Paul. He becomes consumed with revelations about his inattentive father's loneliness, his grandmother's stormy relationship with his boisterous alcoholic uncle, and the frustration of being the best ER -