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Cargando... A Boy Named Phyllis: A Suburban Memoir (edición 1996)por Frank DeCaro (Autor)
Información de la obraA Boy Named Phyllis: A Suburban Memoir por F. A. de Caro
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. His mother checked into the hospital to have a tumor removed. She came home with a baby boy. Thus begins the saga of a boy named Phyllis -a funny, witty, touching memoir of growing up gay in the aluminum-sidinged wild of Little Falls, New Jersey, that is the perfect antidote to the angst-ridden gay memoir. With a family that resembles the cast from the Munsters, Frank DeCaro explores other major influences on his formative years -from Flipper to the Partridge Family, Paul Linde to Disco- and broadens gay coming-of-age literature with a comic touch. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"What's a boy to do? An only child, a little chubby (and carrying it low). By age six already a regular in the Sears Husky Boys Department. Young Frankie is also gay, and he's trapped in the aluminum-sidinged, lawn-sprinklered, what-exit? wilds of New Jersey suburbia. Imagine Elton John born to an Italian-American Edith and Archie Bunker and you've got the picture." "A Boy Named Phyllis is Frank DeCaro's witty gem of a memoir about growing up among working-class Italian folk in Little Falls, New Jersey. There are the usual trials and tribulations between little Frankie and his parents, Marian and Frank Sr., but this is no angst-ridden, coming-of-age gay memoir. Frank is funny, and A Boy Names Phyllis is the antidote to such books." "It is the mid-1960s and the DeCaros have it all: a living room that no one is allowed to live in; a complete collection of cardboard cutout decorations for every holiday; an Entenmann's factory around the corner; and a killer lineup of Friday-night TV - The Brady Bunch, The Partridge Family, Room 222, The Odd Couple, and, if you can stay awake long enough, Love, American Style. There's only one problem: instead of developing a crush on Laurie Partridge, Frankie gets a boner for Keith. He perfects a drop-dead Paul Lynde imitation, and ultimately finds liberation through Elton John and Disco."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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