Best Boy: A Novel (ePub)
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Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post, Booklist, BookPage, Library Journal, and Library Reads
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Selection
An IndieNext Selection
A People Magazine Pick of the Week
Winner of the Rome Prize
Winner of the American Initiative for Italian Culture The Bridge Book Award
Longlisted for the International DUBLIN Literary Award
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence (Fiction)
"Raw and beautiful. . . . What rises and shines from the page is Todd Aaron, a hero of such singular character and clear spirit that you will follow him anywhere. You won't just root for him, you will fight and push and pray for him to wrest control of his future. You will read this book in one sitting or maybe two, and, I promise, you will miss this man deeply when you are done. Ann Bauer, Washington Post
Sent to a therapeutic community for autism at the age of eleven, Todd Aaron, now in his fifties, is the Old Fox of Payton LivingCenter. A joyous man who rereads the encyclopedia compulsively, he is unnerved by the sudden arrivals of a menacing new staffer and a disruptive, brain-injured roommate. His equilibrium is further worsened by Martine, a one-eyed new resident who has romantic intentions and convinces him to go off his meds to feel normal again. Undone by these pressures, Todd attempts an escape to return home to his younger brother and to a childhood that now inhabits only his dreams. Written astonishingly in the first-person voice of an autistic, adult man, Best Boywith its unforgettable portraits of Todd's beloved mother, whose sweet voice still sings from the grave, and a staffer named Raykene, who says that Todd reflects the beauty of His creationis a piercing, achingly funny, finally shattering novel no reader can ever forget.
- Autor: Eli Gottlieb
- 2015, 272 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Liveright
- ISBN-10: 1631490486
- ISBN-13: 9781631490484
- Erscheinungsdatum: 18.08.2015
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- Dateiformat: ePub
- Größe: 1.39 MB
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