Works Cited

An Alphabetical Odyssey of Mayhem and Misbehavior

Brandon R. Schrand

• Publisher: Bison Books
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9780803243378
• eBook ISBN: 9781496211668
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• Index: Social Sciences

"Doing things by the book" acquires a whole new meaning in Brandon R. Schrand's memoir of coming of age in spite of himself. The "works cited" are those books that serve as Schrand's signposts as he goes from life as a hormone-crazed, heavy-metal wannabe in the remotest parts of working-class Idaho to a reasonable facsimile of manhood (with a stop along the way to buy a five-dollar mustard-colored M. C. Hammer suit, so he'll fit in at college). The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn informs his adolescent angst over the perceived injustice of society's refusal to openly discuss boners. The Great Gatsby serves as a metaphor for his indulgent and directionless college days spent in a drunken stupor (when he wasn't feigning interest in Mormonism to attract women). William Kittredge's Hole in the Sky parallels his own dangerous adulthood slide into alcoholism and denial.

With a finely calibrated wit, a good dose of humility, and a strong supporting cast of literary characters, Schrand manages to chart his own story—about a dreamer thrown out of school as many times as he's thrown into jail—until he finally sticks his landing.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Abbey, Edward. Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness. New York: Ballantine, 1971.
• Brinley, Bertrand R. The Mad Scientists’ Club. New York: Scholastic, 1965.
• The Children’s Bible. Racine WI: Golden Press, 1965.
• Clemens, Samuel Langhorne. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Racine WI: Golden Press, 1965.
• Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. New York: Bantam, 1982.
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Introduction by Carl Van Doren. New York: Literary Classics, 1945.
• Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York: Macmillan, 1992.
• Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary: Life in a Country Town. Vol. 2 of Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, 6th ed., edited by Maynard Mack, Bernard M. W. Knox, John C. McGalliard, P. M. Pasinetti, Howard E. Hugo, Patricia Meyer Spacks, Rene Wellek, Kenneth Douglas, and Sarah Lawall. New York: Norton, 1992.
• Hacker, Diane. The Bedford Handbook for Writers. 3rd ed. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press, 1991.
• Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Macmillan, 1980.
• Hinton, S. E. The Outsiders. New York: Laurel Leaf, 1968.
• Hornby, Nick. High Fidelity. New York: Riverhead, 1995.
• Irving, John. A Prayer for Owen Meany. New York: Ballantine, 1989.
• Kittredge, William. Hole in the Sky. New York: Vintage, 1992.
• Lopez, Barry. About This Life. New York: Vintage, 1998.
• Menand, Louis. The Metaphysical Club: The Story of Ideas in America. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2002.
• Morrison, Jim. Wilderness: The Lost Writings of Jim Morrison. Vol. 1. New York: Vintage, 1988.
• Morrison, Toni. Beloved. New York: Plume, 1988.
• Ondaatje, Michael. Running in the Family. New York: Vintage, 1982.
• Orwell, George. 1984. New York: Signet Classics, 1981.
• Potter, David. People of Plenty: Economic Abundance and the American Character. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958.
• Proulx, Annie. Close Range: Wyoming Stories. New York: Scribner, 2003.
• Stegner, Wallace. The Big Rock Candy Mountain. New York: Penguin, 1991.
• Thompson, Hunter S. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. New York: Vintage, 1989.
• Toole, John Kennedy. A Confederacy of Dunces. New York: Grove Press, 1980.
• Wallace, David Foster. A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again. New York: Little, Brown, 1997.
• Wolff, Tobias. This Boy’s Life: A Memoir. New York: Harper Perennial, 1989.