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| Author | Libba Bray |
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| Cover artist | Yuan Lee |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Young-adult fiction surreal dark comedy |
| Publisher | Delacorte Press |
Publication date | 2009 |
| Publication place |  United States |
| Media type | Print Hardcover |
| Pages | 496 |
| ISBN | 9780385733977 |
Going Bovine is a 2009 surreal dark comedy novel by Libba Bray. It follows the experiences of high school junior Cameron Smith as he suffers from transmissible spongiform encephalopathy.[1]
Plot summary
Cameron Smith is a high school slacker from Texas living a somewhat aimless life. His father is a college physics professor; his mother is a community college English teacher. Cameron’s life starts to spiral out of control when he is diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob variant BSE, a slowly progressive fatal disease (also known as mad cow disease), for which there is no cure. But he is visited in the hospital by Dulcie, an angel with pink hair who wears boots and spray paints her wings; she tells him that he can possibly save his life, but only by first finding Dr. X, a time traveling physicist. Cameron starts thinking about his journey and how he can succeed and get the most out of it.Unconvinced at first by Dulcie’s suggestion, Cameron changes his mind when he is attacked by fire giants and a mysterious Wizard of Reckoning—a masked figure wearing a silver space suit who is intent on killing him.
Cameron sneaks out of the hospital with his roommate and high school classmate, Gonzo, a video game playing dwarf with an overprotective mother on a quest that takes them from Texas to New Orleans and into Florida, all the while pursued by the Wizard of Reckoning and his fire giants.
Throughout the novel it is uncertain if Cameron is actually undertaking this journey, or if he is simply imagining it because of this disease.
--64.20.152.186 (talk) 22:24, 19 November 2011 (UTC)==Characters==
- Cameron Smith, a high school student suffering from transmissible spongiform encephalopathy.
- Gonzo, Cameron’s traveling companion, a dwarf with an overprotective mother.
- Dulcie, an angel who is Cameron’s guide.
- Balder, the Norse god who has been cursed into the shape of a lawn gnome.
- Jenna Smith, Cameron's twin sister who is popular in school and is not close to her brother.
- Staci Johnson, Cameron's initial love interest.
- Chet King, the school's former quarterback, who after an injury "accepted Jesus into his life". Is dating Jenna.
Awards
- 2009 Children's Book Sense Pick, and won Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book of the Year and Booklist Books for Youth Editors' Choice in 2009.[2]
- 2010 Michael L. Printz Award winner[3], an award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature.
- 2010 Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book nominee [4]
References
- ^ http://www.amazon.com/dp/0385733976
- ^ "Going Bovine". randomhouse.com. Retrieved 11 January 2010.
- ^ American Library Association (2010). "Michael L. Printz Winners and Honor Books". Retrieved 2011-02-03.
- ^ "Locus YA Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End **DANIEL BALLSACK TOSH WAS HERE!**. Retrieved 2011-11-4.
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