Palo Alto Av James Franco

<p><i>Palo Alto</i> is the debut of a powerful new literary voice. Written with an immediacy and sense of place <i>Palo Alto</i> traces the lives of an extended group of teenagers as they experiment with vices of all kinds, struggle with their families and one another, and succumb to self-destructive, often heartless nihilism. Franco presents his characters in all their raw humanity, while at the same time providing insight into the teenage mind.<br><br>In the classic American tradition of story-cycles such as Sherwood Anderson''s <i>Winesburg, Ohio, Palo Alto</i> presents a stark, vivid, disturbing, but, above all, compassionate portrait of lives on the rough fringes of youth.</p>