Hand-reared Boy - Couverture souple

Aldiss, Brian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0552086517 ISBN 13 : 9780552086516

Editeur : Corgi Childrens, 1971

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Corgi Childrens
• Date d'édition: 1971
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0552086517
• ISBN 13: 9780552086516
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible