THE ADVENTURES OF HOMER FINK

by Sidney Offit ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 10, 1966

Homer Fink, a junior high school-aged boy, flourishes his Greco-Roman scholarship the way an exhibitionistic schoolboy athlete might flex his muscles. Like a tape-recorded encyclopedia, his windy irrelevancies in class, at home, or among his classmates provide interludes of abstruse information that occasionally divert, more often distract. The story line is basic to the book-about-school genre. Homer goes all out for the school election and the unlikely hi-jinks that attend it are idealized with much hypermanic activity and unlikely hi-jinks that attend it are idealized with much hypermanic activity and unlikely enthusiasm. Narrated by Homer's best friend, Richard Sanders, the two boys discover girls, or rather one girl, at the same time. She immediately becomes the Goddess of Love in Homer's pantheon, which also includes a shepherd he thinks might be the reincarnation of Pan. Homer doesn't win the election and is only a so-so contender for laughs.

Pub Date: March 10, 1966

ISBN: 1583483802

Page Count: -

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1966

Categories: FICTION