A Boy's Own Story - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Boy's Own Story write by Edmund White. This book was released on 2014-12-23. A Boy's Own Story available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “An extraordinary novel” about growing up gay in the 1950s American Midwest (The New York Times Book Review). Critically lauded upon its initial publication in 1982 for its pioneering depiction of homosexuality, A Boy’s Own Story is a moving tale about coming-of-age in midcentury America. With searing clarity and unabashed wit, Edmund White’s unnamed protagonist yearns for what he knows to be shameful. He navigates an uneasy relationship with his father, confounds first loves, and faces disdain from his peers at school. In the embrace of another, he discovers the sincere and clumsy pleasures of adolescent sexuality. But for boys in the 1950s, these desires were unthinkable. Looking back on his experiences, the narrator notes, “I see now that what I wanted was to be loved by men and to love them back but not to be a homosexual.” From a winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature, this trailblazing autobiographical story of one boy’s youth is a moving, tender, and heartbreaking portrait of what it means to grow up.
The Jack-Roller
The Jack-Roller - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Jack-Roller write by Clifford R. Shaw. This book was released on 2013-02-11. The Jack-Roller available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Jack-Roller tells the story of Stanley, a pseudonym Clifford Shaw gave to his informant and co-author, Michael Peter Majer. Stanley was sixteen years old when Shaw met him in 1923 and had recently been released from the Illinois State Reformatory at Pontiac, after serving a one-year sentence for burglary and jack-rolling (mugging), Vivid, authentic, this is the autobiography of a delinquent—his experiences, influences, attitudes, and values. The Jack-Roller helped to establish the life-history or "own story" as an important instrument of sociological research. The book remains as relevant today to the study and treatment of juvenile delinquency and maladjustment as it was when originally published in 1930.
The Boys' Own Story Book
The Boys' Own Story Book - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Boys' Own Story Book write by William Martin. This book was released on 1860. The Boys' Own Story Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Dear Fahrenheit 451
Dear Fahrenheit 451 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dear Fahrenheit 451 write by Annie Spence. This book was released on 2017-09-26. Dear Fahrenheit 451 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A librarian's laugh-out-loud funny, deeply moving collection of love letters and breakup notes to the books in her life. If you love to read, and presumably you do since you’ve picked up this book (!), you know that some books affect you so profoundly they forever change the way you think about the world. Some books, on the other hand, disappoint you so much you want to throw them against the wall. Either way, it’s clear that a book can be your new soul mate or the bad relationship you need to end. In Dear Fahrenheit 451, librarian Annie Spence has crafted love letters and breakup notes to the iconic and eclectic books she has encountered over the years. From breaking up with The Giving Tree (a dysfunctional relationship book if ever there was one), to her love letter to The Time Traveler’s Wife (a novel less about time travel and more about the life of a marriage, with all of its ups and downs), Spence will make you think of old favorites in a new way. Filled with suggested reading lists, Spence’s take on classic and contemporary books is very much like the best of literature—sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, sometimes surprisingly poignant, and filled with universal truths. A celebration of reading, Dear Fahrenheit 451 is for anyone who loves nothing more than curling up with a good book...and another, and another, and another!
The Boys on the Rock
The Boys on the Rock - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Boys on the Rock write by John Fox. This book was released on 1994-01-15. The Boys on the Rock available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A sixteen-year-old from the Bronx, popular at school and "sort of" going steady, falls in love for the first time with another boy one exuberant summer.
