Leave Myself Behind |
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Author:
| Yates, Bart |
ISBN: | 978-0-7582-9002-1 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2004 |
Publisher: | Kensington Publishing Corporation
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | Contact Supplier contact
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Book Description:
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The Alex Award-winning novel of a young gay man's search for meaning--from an author whose "voice is more than just honest or original; it's real" (The Plain Dealer). Meet seventeen-year-old Noah York, the hilariously profane, brutally honest, completely engaging narrator of Bart Yates's astonishing debut novel. With a mouth like a truck driver and eyes that see through the lies of the world, Noah is heading into a life that's only getting...
More Description The Alex Award-winning novel of a young gay man's search for meaning--from an author whose "voice is more than just honest or original; it's real" (The Plain Dealer).
Meet seventeen-year-old Noah York, the hilariously profane, brutally honest, completely engaging narrator of Bart Yates's astonishing debut novel. With a mouth like a truck driver and eyes that see through the lies of the world, Noah is heading into a life that's only getting more complicated by the day.
His dead father is fading into a snapshot memory, and his psycho-poet mother has relocated them from Chicago to a rural New England hamlet that looks like a bad advertisement for small-town America. The house he now lives in is literally coming apart at the seams as he and his mother renovate the old Victorian--in which they discover disturbing clues to the mysterious existence of a woman who disappeared decades before.
While his mother grows more obsessed with the mysterious woman, Noah fights his own troubling--but irresistible--obsession with the boy next door, the enigmatic J.D. It is J.D. who begins to quietly anchor Noah to his new life. J.D., who is hiding a terrible, haunting pain of his own that will affect Noah in ways he never thought possible . . .
Part Portnoy, part Holden Caulfield, never less than truthful, and always fully human, Noah York is a touching and unforgettable character whose "blunt, funny and dead-on narrative" is sure to entertain and entrance readers (Brian Malloy).