Benjamin Lebert: 2 books

A smart, funny, poignant, very modern autobiographical coming-of-age novel, written when the author was sixteen years old. Like**Catcher in the Rye,**Crazy appeals to the teenager in us all. Benni himself is partially paralyzed and a serial failure (he's been kicked out of four boarding schools...

Henry and Paul are strangers when they find themselves sharing a sleeping compartment on a night train from Munich to Berlin. When they begin to talk, their stories appear to be variations on the same theme: young guys adrift in the big city, relationships gone wrong, broken hearts. Henry is running...