Dream-Boy

Name: Dream-Boy
ISBN: 9783860344057

Jim Grimsley

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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 cliche, 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.

వర్గాలు:

Fiction - Contemporary Fiction

సంవత్సరం:

1997

ప్రచురణకర్త:

Edition Diá

భాష:

german

పేజీల సంఖ్య:

166

ISBN 10:

3860344056