Hand-reared Boy - Couverture rigide

Aldiss, Brian W.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0297179608 ISBN 13 : 9780297179603

Editeur : Littlehampton Book Services Ltd, 1970

Synopsis

The Hand-Reared Boy A novel for our times

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

One of the landmark novels of our time, The Hand-Reared Boy was the first British novel to explore, frankly and with unabashed honesty, the sexual awakening of a young boy. Horatio Stubbs grows from childhood to adolescence and his preoccupations (and those of all young men) are described with wit and perception as he reaches puberty. The Hand-Reared Boy was rejected by thirteen publishers before being published in 1970. Readers were more accustomed to Brian Aldiss as a writer of award-winning science fiction. It has now been recognised for what it is an original, delightfully funny description of the young Horatio Stubbs s burgeoning sexuality, the emotions of adolescence had never been treated so explicitly. The Hand-Reared Boy no longer provokes a sense of shock but it has become the classic study of a boy s self-discovery and realisation that other people are more than sexual objects.

Revue de presse :

So filthy, I read it with the door of my office closed, as if afraid of being caught. --Rachel Cooke, The Observer

A very funny and a very decent book... unless laughter is corrupting, it s not going to corrupt anyone. --Robert Nye, The Guardian

A heart-wrenching love story... The first British novel to explore sexuality in such a frank and honest way. --Forum

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Littlehampton Book Services Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1970
• ISBN 10: 0297179608
• ISBN 13: 9780297179603
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1