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SYNOPSIS: (From the back of the book): Jim Grimsley's stunning
and heartbreaking novel recounts the story of a painful first love between two
adolescent boys who bravely sustain each other in a world of domestic
disintegration. At once haunting and sublime, Dream Boy is an amazing tale
of boundless hope - and ultimate tragedy.
EDITORIAL REVIEW:
With this heartbreaking story of first love, Grimsley, recipient of the
1995 Sue Kaufman Prize for his first novel, Winter Birds, has
crafted another potential award winner. Here he works that novel's theme, a
father's abuse of his son, into his sensitive depiction of a love affair between
two high-school boys in the rural South. Nathan, a sophomore and
the only child of an abusive, scripture-quoting, booze-guzzling father and a
nearly invisible mother, becomes smitten with Roy, a senior who lives
next door. Almost without realizing it (and with some reluctance on both sides),
they begin an achingly tender romance. Ultimately, peer pressure leads to
tragedy, and to a sort of metaphysical denouement that may strike some readers
as over-the-top. But by that time, Grimsley's scenario has become so
poignant and credible that the ending seems almost inevitable. He clearly
understands the pain and confusion of budding love, and his present-tense
narrative adds urgency and a touching immediacy to his tale. Without ever
succumbing to cliché, Grimsley cuts with surgical precision to the heart
of these characters' inchoate longings and barely repressed fears. Deceptively
simple descriptive passages are hauntingly elegiac, and things left unsaid
become as important as words expressed: these players' silences speak volumes.
Romantic passion, violence and ultimate liberation coalesce in this singular
display of literary craftsmanship. Editorial review
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FORMAT:
Paperback, 208 pages.
VIEW MULTIMEDIA: NO MULTIMEDIA AVAILABLE.
PUBLISHER: Touchstone.
AVAILABILITY: In stock! Ships
within one business day.
LANGUAGE: English.
VIEWER
DISCRETION: Coarse language, sexual situations.
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: USA (1997).
DATE ADDED TO OUR
LIBRARY: August 8, 2008.
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