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Description edit
A prizewinning playwright shares the stunning and heartbreaking story of two adolescent boys who fall in love, painfully acknowledging their homosexuality and, at the same time, trying to sustain each other as their families fall apart around them.
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Characters/People edit
- Nathan: Add a description of this character.
- Roy: The boy next door
- Burke: the antagonist
- Randy
- Potter
- John Roberts
Quotes edit
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“P.111-112: They march through bright-coloured splendours, high leafy vaults, waves of vine and frond. The red and silver maples have turned colours, but the oaks and pines are still retaining their green. The images of the other boys shimmer against the fervid backdrop. Burke's bronze arms slide among the leaves, his dense body careens through the dusk, heavier than its surroundings; Randy's rounder figure follows in Burke's wake, his golden hair sometimes disappearing behind Burke's back. Nathan occasionally turns back to study the two, but mostly watches Roy's smooth gait, the movement of his shoulders beneath the backpack, the gloss of dusk in his jet hair. Nathan trails him like a lesser moon.”
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“P.148: Roy, affecting that he will dirty his tee shirt, takes it off. But instead of looping it through his belt, he hands it to Nathan.Nathan takes the shirt. Roy stretches his shoulders a little. The moment it small and passes easily beneath the awareness of the others.”
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“P.148-149: Roy shines the flashlight and carefully brushes away the remains of old glass from the windowsill. His bare back drains a streak of moon down the spine.”
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“P.169: Nathan rubs his eyes gently. He is seeing better and better. The man stands behind him. He is wearing jeans. He wears no shirt, and his body is thick and powerful. Moonlight from a dormer window coats his flesh in milk and shadow.”
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“P.182: He walks through the garden at the side of the house. Many more of the flowers are blooming in the yard than he remembers from the day before, the garden a mix of well-tended and wild. There are evening primrose, senna, asters, verbena, elecampane, gay feather, spiderflower, goldenrod, cone flowers, bottle gentian, ironweed, queen-of-the-meadow, boneset, yarrow, cornflowers, false foxglove, turtleheads, and sunflowers.”
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“P.184: He rests in the clearing where Burke took off his shirt and drank liquor. He walks near the creek there, haunting the place.”
First Sentence edit
On Sunday in the new church, Preacher John Roberts tells about the disciple Jesus loved whose name was also John, how at the Last Supper John lay his head tenderly on Jesus's breast.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Jim Grimsley (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 1995
ISBN: 1565121066
Page Count: 195
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 1995
ISBN: 1565121066
Page Count: 195
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- Dewey: 813.54
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