Could you be thinking of About a Boy, another title by Nick Hornby? It's about an awkward, angst-ridden 12 year old whose hippie mother forces him to listen to Joni Mitchell albums.
At 12:31 AM 2/25/02 -0500, you wrote: >_Pool Boy_, by an unknown author > > (I have tried everything from Amazon to eBay to the Library of Congress >to find this less than mediocre book which I read a couple of years ago and >then gave away when I moved from RI.
