Firmin Urban Planning & Development or from back to front—for

or from back to front—for the whole family

ISBN13: 9780972142809 ISBN10: 0972142800 Material Type: paperback

Brandon Vale is a career thief---the best there is

Charlotte Bronte's gothic heroine loves her moody employer

Firmin Urban Planning & Development or from back to front—forIn the basement of a Boston bookstore, Firmin is born in a shredded copy Finnegans Wake, nurtured on a diet of Zane Grey, Lady Chatterleys Lover, and Jane Eyre (which tastes a lot like lettuce). While his twelve siblings gnaw these books obliviously, for Firmin the words, thoughts, deeds, and hopesall the literature he consumessoon consume him. Emboldened by reading, intoxicated by curiosity, foraging for food, Firmin ventures out of his bookstore