Black Sheep Boy - Rilegato

Pousson, Martin

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ISBN 10: 1942600372 ISBN 13: 9781942600374

Casa editrice: Rare Bird Books, 2016

Riassunto

A young boy in the Louisiana bayou is different than all of the men in his life: small, weak, effeminate. Through his eyes we see everything, from the mundane to the fantastical, the intricacies of Cajun life on the bayou, the trappings of masculinity, and the consequences for not adhering to those strict customs.

Black Sheep Boy is a beautifully wrought collection of interlinking stories, told with passion and compassion. Martin Poussson knows this world and it shows.

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A Los Angeles Times literary pick of the week

"Black Sheep Boy frames its fear through tragic misunderstanding, violence, and sexual confusion, and it illuminates the terrible aching divide of understanding between family members."
The Millions

"This is the kind of book that you don’t need to be LGBT-plus to enjoy; you just need to pick up a copy and start reading."
Los Angeles Times

What Pousson does so masterfully is to take such a dazzlingly fantastical and specific world and render it universally recognizable to anyone who's grown up queer in a world that would sometimes violently prefer he or she did not. While he artfully lifts the veil on a world outside of most people's experience, he also offers an outstretched hand of solidarity to every black sheep boy and girl who's lucky enough to pick up a copy of his book.”
John Bavoso, Lambda Literary

Beautifully impressionistic, and also raw, open and vulnerable. Pousson’s bayou is such a frightening and vibrant place, generous and punishing, and the narrator’s perspective pulls us in, and brings the reader close.”
Aimee Bender, author of The Color Master and The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

"Electrical, convulsive, hallucinatory, elemental... A book to give you fevers, chills, and visions."
Ben Loory, author of Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day

Seductive and thrilling depths of passion and longing this book really does cast a spell on you, and the effect is wild and wondrous. Magical realism has moved north to Acadiana, and the spell takes. This is a novel of masks, hidden shames that explode into ecstasy.”
Jeff MacMahon, The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide

The title story of this novel-in-stories is wonderful, as are all the rest. Pousson is a huge talent.”
Ilana Masad, The Other Stories

Pick up and read this fucking book. It's intensely wild.”
Jake Shears, Lead singer of Scissor Sisters

If you like coming of age stories about freaky and fabulous southern sissies (and who doesn't?) Black Sheep Boy is a must read. Set in the bayou land of Louisiana, this fabulist tale kept me entranced. Queer lit at its finest!” Justin Vivian Bond, author of Tango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels

A fantastic read! Poetic and honest, painful yet beautiful.”
Candi Sary, author of Black Crow, White Lie

Black Sheep Boy is a harrowing story of survival of being an outcast an excellent read that reminds us that gay life is not always gay”
Carlos Allende, author of Love, Or The Witches of Windward Circle

The beauty of the novel is in the way that author Martin Pousson makes the fantastic and specific world of the bayous recognizable to all of us growing up gay in a place that does not provide solace and comfort.”
Amos Lassen, Reviews By Amos Lassen

The writing style is deeply visceral embodies the spirit of Whitman’s I am large and I contain multitudes.” Pousson does a fantastic job using language to set the stage for the stunningly rich backdrop of the Louisiana bayou starring a hodge podge cast of characters that mirror the kaleidoscope of individuals that might crop up in anyone’s life”
Joyfully Jay

What I loved: the beautiful prose, the Louisiana setting, and a story that wasn’t a romance. I appreciated the almost tall tale quality to it all and the rich history and cultural flavor. Because it isn’t tied with direct reference to a particular era, it has a timeless quality to it. A phenomenally well-written book.”
A.M. Leibowitz, Inked Rainbow Reads

"Martin Pousson is a wizard with words."
Rich Ferguson, New Jersey Me

L'autore:

Martin Pousson was born and raised in Acadiana, in the bayou land of Louisiana. His short stories won a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He also was a finalist for the John Gardner Fiction Book Award, the Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award, and the Lambda Literary Award. His stories have appeared in The Antioch Review,Epoch, Five Points, StoryQuarterly, and elsewhere. He now lives in Los Angeles.

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• Editore: Rare Bird Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1942600372
• ISBN 13: 9781942600374
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 186