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Happy Baby

por Stephen Elliott

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Stephen Elliott's new novel, Happy Baby, explores how pain can define desire, how the future becomes the past, and how grace struggles with self-destruction. The story, told in reverse, begins with thirty-six-year-old Theo and his search for sexual and emotional freedom, and slowly unravels back to a childhood of abuse in the juvenile detention centers of Chicago. Without judgment, Elliott traces a life defined by yearning-for love, for pain, for certainty. His clear words and unflinching gaze reveal the difficulty of simple truths and the possibility of transcendence in the face of unforgivable crimes." About the author: Stephen Elliott lives in San Francisco and lectures at Stanford University. He was born in Chicago, and was a Ward of the State of Illinois from age thirteen to eighteen. This is his fourth novel.

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36-year-old Theo returns to Chicago after many years to reconnect with his ex-girlfriend Maria - the starting point to a trip backward in time through Theo's more than difficult upbringing. In short scenes we move from the unhappy submissive adult Theo has become to the happy baby he used to be.

Happy Baby is a difficult book because it tells such a difficult story. And while I appreciated much about it, it didn't quiet reach me in a way it could have.

Read more on my blog: http://kalafudra.com/2017/05/11/happy-baby-stephen-elliott/ ( )
  kalafudra | Sep 2, 2017 |
Far better than "A Boy Called It". Mr. Elliott tells his story with dignity and courage. I'll never forget the scene where he follows his childhood tormenter on the bus. I still get chills remembering how that encounter ends. ( )
  evamat72 | Mar 31, 2016 |
Theo is put into care aged 13 and brutally treated and sexually abused by Mr. Gracie, his caseworker, who protects him from other physical abuse. ( )
  TonySandel | Sep 15, 2007 |
Masochism as negotiation with past abuse. ( )
  NativeRoses | Mar 3, 2007 |
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Erotic Literature. Fiction. Romance. HTML:

Stephen Elliott's new novel, Happy Baby, explores how pain can define desire, how the future becomes the past, and how grace struggles with self-destruction. The story, told in reverse, begins with thirty-six-year-old Theo and his search for sexual and emotional freedom, and slowly unravels back to a childhood of abuse in the juvenile detention centers of Chicago. Without judgment, Elliott traces a life defined by yearning-for love, for pain, for certainty. His clear words and unflinching gaze reveal the difficulty of simple truths and the possibility of transcendence in the face of unforgivable crimes." About the author: Stephen Elliott lives in San Francisco and lectures at Stanford University. He was born in Chicago, and was a Ward of the State of Illinois from age thirteen to eighteen. This is his fourth novel.

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