Popular Culture Theory And Methodology: A Basic Introduction - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0879728701 ISBN 13 : 9780879728700

Editeur : The Popular Press, 2006

Synopsis

Things look bad for Rick Lahrem, a high school sophomore in a cookie-cutter Chicago suburb in 1976. His mother s second husband is a licensed psychologist who eats like an ape, his stepsister is a stoner slut, and his father is engaged to a Southern belle. Rick s only solace is his growing collection of original Broadway-cast LPs, bought on the sly at Wax Trax.
After he brings two girls in speech class to tears by reading a story aloud, Rick is coaxed onto the interscholastic forensics team to perform an eight-minute dramatic interpretation of The Boys in the Band, the controversial sixties play about homosexuality. Unexpectedly successful at this oddball event, Rick begins winning tournaments and making friends with his teammates.
Rick also discovers the joys of sex with a speech coach from a rival school just as his mother, reacting to a deteriorating home environment, makes an unnerving commitment to Christ. The newly confident Rick assumes this too shall pass until the combined forces of family, sex, and faith threaten to undo him at the state meet in Peoria.
James Magruder s Sugarless offers a ruefully entertaining take on the simultaneous struggles of coming-out, coming-of-age, and coming-to-Jesus.A selection of InsightOut Book Club
Finalist, Lambda Book Award for Gay Debut Fiction, Lambda Literary Foundation
Finalist, TLA Gaybie Award for Best Gay Fiction
Semi-finalist, James Branch Cabell First Novelist Award, Virginia Commonwealth University
Semi-finalist, William Saroyan International Prize For Writing, Stanford University"

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Harold E. Hinds, Jr. is professor of history and director of Latin American area studies at the University of Minnesota, Morris. Marilyn F. Motz is associate professor of popular culture at Bowling Green State University. Angela M. S. Nelson is associate professor of popular culture at Bowling Green State University and chair of the department.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Popular Press
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0879728701
• ISBN 13: 9780879728700
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 424
• Éditeur: Hinds Harold E., Motz Marilyn F., Nelson Angela M.S.
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