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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Paperback)

ISBN
  
978-1-59376-196-7

Originally published
  
21 July 2008

Publisher
  
Soft Skull Press

OCLC
  
181517136

3.6/5
Goodreads

Publication date
  
2008 July 21

Pages
  
344 pp

Dewey Decimal
  
813/.6 22

Author
  
Jonathan Evison

Country
  
United States of America

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All About Lulu (published 2008) is a coming-of-age novel by American author Jonathan Evison. The novel revolves around a family of bodybuilders in Santa Monica from the Summer of Love to the Dot-com bubble.

Contents

Plot summary

In the wake of his mother's death, as his bodybuilding brethren pump themselves to Hulkish proportions, weak-eyed vegetarian Will Miller stops growing altogether—until the day his father remarries a relentlessly kind grief counselor, delivering Will a troubled stepsister who soon becomes his confessor, companion, and heart's only desire. But when Lulu returns from cheerleading camp the summer of her fourteenth year, she inexplicably begins to push Will away, forcing him to look elsewhere for meaning.

Themes

Major themes in All About Lulu include self-improvement, family, unrequited love, obsession, the American dream, talk radio, and meat.

Reception

All About Lulu received a starred review in Publishers Weekly (5/12/08), who called the book “a stunner—viciously funny and deeply felt.” In subsequent reviews, including the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Seattle P.I., the novel was compared both favorably and unfavorably to J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, and Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita. In addition to being selected for the Los Angeles Times and Seattle PI summer reading lists, All About Lulu was selected for numerous year-end "Top 10" and "Best of" lists, including Hudson, and Time Out Chicago, and won the 2009 Washington State Book Award.

Film Adaptation

  • All About Lulu was optioned for film in 2008 by Crossroads Films. The film rights to two earlier novels, Welcome Avenue and The Ray of Hope Foundation, were also optioned in 2008, to actor/producer Joseph Cross, and Streetgang Films, respectively. Projects are in various stages of development.
  • References

    All About Lulu Wikipedia