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World Of Normal Boys, The
By: K.M. Soehnlein
From: Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pages: 282
Softcover
UPC: 1575666618
ADL's Price: $14.00
Winner of the 2001 Lambda Literary Award for Best in Gay Fiction. Autographed Copy if ordered before June 22, 2010 K.M. Soehnlein's trenchant, emotionally honest debut novel unfailingly captures the spirit of a generation and an era. The World Of Normal Boys is told in the haunting voice of thirteen-year-old Robin MacKenzie, a modern-day Holden Caulfield, whose struggle for a place in the world is as ferocious as it is real. It is the late 1970s in suburban New Jersey, and while "normal boys" are into cars, sports, and bullying their classmates, Robin Mackenzie enjoys day trips to New York City with his elegant mother. He dutifully plays the role of the good son for his meat-and-potatoes father, even as his own mind is a jumble of sexual confusion and self-doubt. But everything changes in one, horrifying instant when a tragic accident wakes his family from their middle-American dream and plunges them into a spiral of slow destruction. As the MacKenzie family falls apart, Robin embarks on an explosive odyssey of sexual self-discovery that will take him into a complex future, beyond the world of normal boys.
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Average visitor rating  based on 3 review(s)
Review by fivehavokfive on 06/09/2006 -
This was a fantastic read. Great characters, well formed. The story shows the traumas, gigantic and silent in the life of a 'typical boring teen life'; and the course they help set for the rest of your life. Really captures late seventies world. Almost a feel of stream of consciousness in the narrative. Read it in 2 hours and turned around and read it again. Write on Mr. Soehnlein! Highly recommended. fhf
Review by Martin Brant on 03/26/2005 -
Delightful. Just hope Soehnlein never stops writing.
Review by royski on 10/17/2004 -
This is a MUST read for anyone who grew up in the seventies. It took me back to some places that I had thought were totally gone from my memory. I read this several months ago and still have not let it go from my mind.
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