Denis Cooverman — valedictorian, debate team captain, nerd extraordinaire — uses the occasion of his high school graduation speech to tell the head cheerleader, “I love you, Beth Cooper.” In one of Doyle’s too few subversions of the genre, Beth is touched by Denis’s sincerity. Unfortunately, her violent boyfriend, Kevin, on furlough from the Army, is not. Denis, Beth and assorted friends spend the novel trying to stay out of the homicidal Kevin’s grasp, as an evening of unlikely romance unfolds.
Watch for the movie in the summer of 2009.
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