Del has spent 17 years bouncing among foster homes. Smart, sharp-tongued, a master mimic, she's fed up with her world and with being Del. Faking her own death, she leaves both herself and L.A. behind - until her escape lands her in an all-day traffic jam. Fast-forward eight years. It's opening night for the one-woman play she's written and is starring in - a show called Breakout, about a Los Angeles traffic jam. Wildly funny, she skewers workaholics, road ragers, pickup artists, and car culture in general. Readers will see what her audience can't - that the show is a portrait of herself, of her hunger for her mother and her terror of rejection, her free-floating identity and yearning for connection. Flashing between Del's present and future, Breakout gives us a backstage pass into a young playwright's psyche, letting us watch her life being transformed into an art, heartache into comedy, solitude into community, and anger gradually giving way to acceptance.

 
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Hardback Editions

October 2008 : Library Binding
Title: Breakout
Author(s):: Paul Fleischman
ISBN: 1439561338 / 9781439561331
Publisher:
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February 2005 : Hardback
Title: Breakout
Author(s):: Paul Fleischman
ISBN: 0756951755 / 9780756951757 (USA edition)
Publisher: Perfection Learning
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February 2005 : Library Binding
Title: Breakout
Author(s):: Paul Fleischman
ISBN: 1417669322 / 9781417669325 (USA edition)
Publisher: San Val
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July 2003 : Hardback
Title: Breakout
Author(s):: Paul Fleischman
ISBN: 0812626966 / 9780812626964 (USA edition)
Publisher: Cricket Books/Marcato
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Paperback Editions

January 2005 : Paperback
Title: Breakout
Author(s):: Paul Fleischman
ISBN: 0689871899 / 9780689871894 (USA edition)
Publisher: Simon Pulse
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Audio Editions

December 2003 : Audio Cassette
Title: Breakout
Author(s):: Paul Fleischman
ISBN: 1402567081 / 9781402567087 (USA edition)
Publisher: Recorded Books
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