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The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things
 

The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things

by J. T. Leroy

The extraordinary stories that brought the author a cult following at the age of sixteen.

These are the stories of a young boy on the run, away from his past, hellbent towards an unknown future. Connected, they form a sometimes harrowing, sometimes bleakly funny, and often tender portrait of a complicated life. Like a modern-day Voltaire, LeRoy bounces his characters from... (read more)

Top tags: fiction,  contemporary,  queer,  transgressive,  really makes u think (all tags)

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Liked It

CoffeeCat
  • Rated 5 stars

“This book is a sequal to LeRoy's novel Sarah.

This novel, tells the tale of Sarahs' son Jeremiah who is unexpectedly taken from his (adoptive) parents by Sarah and has to adopt her rebelious lot-lizard lifestyle.

Sarah almost appears tame by comparison to this novel in that, Sarah is the tip of the iceberg where as Jeremiah's experience dives head-first into the barbarity of their lifestyle.

The scenes dealing with Sarah's strict Christian parents are just chilling...”

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Didn’t Like It

MintyJulep
  • Rated 1 stars

“I thought JT LeRoy sucked before "he" was outed as a phony and a fraud and a liar. All my friends would gush about how great he was, and I would roll my eyes and politely keep my mouth shut.
I still think he has the writing ability of a ground termite; the only difference is that now that the ruse is up, it's pretty clear that a lot of his "fans" just felt sorry for him rather than have any actual criticism of his ability to write. Too bad there's no him, and that the woman behind the...”

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Community:
  • Rated 3.88 stars
Amazon:
  • Rated 2.5 stars
  

Newest Comments

  • T♥luul♥hbelle

    t♥luul♥hbelle said:

    “I could only read one chapter of this book. I know it's fictional, but I just kept imagining a real kid having to go through something like that. I'm sure worse things happen every day that we never hear about, but I honestly couldn't force myself to read it. I'm a mother, so as I was reading the first chapter, I just kept thinking, wow, what if that was my son having to endure all of that abuse. I didn't even attempt to read Sarah.”

    posted Tuesday, January 1 2008
  • angel

    angel said:

    “wonder who lives right next door now ?”

    posted Monday, October 29 2007
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