Sponsor
Portland State University. Department of English
First Advisor
Tony Wolk
Term of Graduation
Spring 2001
Date of Publication
5-10-2001
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (M.A.) in English
Department
English
Language
English
Subjects
Novel
Physical Description
1 online resource (i, 251 pages)
Abstract
The novel opens with three people in a stolen 300ZX going dangerously fast. There's Kevin Parish, our first person protagonist, through who's eyes we come to learn of the events leading up to the three's desperate situation. There's Hector Malice, the trailer-trash life-long friend and Kevin's rival for the love of Kevin's life, Ginger Lane. Then, there's Ginger, the former Ms. Lewis County turned drug abusing waitress and worse. Revealed are the secrets of the car business and other marginally legal short cons.
The settings range from the fictional rural Washington communities of Pelton and Clark's Bluff to the city of Portland, Oregon to Las Vegas, Nevada. The characters grow from fist-fighting country kids, living for the moment, loving when it suits them, into exploited and jaded adults with one choice left to them: Fight and escape, or die.
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Recommended Citation
Echtle, James Raymond, "Four Square" (2001). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 7101.