Our Young Man
Title | Our Young Man PDF eBook |
Author | Edmund White |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 307 |
Release | 2017-05-18 |
Genre | Gay culture |
ISBN | 1408858967 |
Our Young Man follows the life of a gorgeous Frenchman, Guy, as he goes from the industrial city of Clermont-Ferrand to the top of the modeling profession in New York City's fashion world, becoming the darling of Fire Island's gay community. Like Wilde's Dorian Grey, Guy never seems to age; at thirty-five he is still modeling, still enjoying lavish gifts from older men who believe he's twenty-three--though their attentions always come at a price. Ambivalently, Guy lets them believe, driven especially by the memory of growing up poor, until he finds he needs the lie to secure not only wealth, but love itself. Surveying the full spectrum of gay amorous life through the disco era and into the age of AIDS, Edmund White (who worked at Vogue for ten years) explores the power of physical beauty--to fascinate, to enslave, and to deceive--with sparkling wit and pathos.
Young Man
Title | Young Man PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Gallagher |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 185 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Sex |
ISBN | 9781873796641 |
Go West, Young Man
Title | Go West, Young Man PDF eBook |
Author | B. J. Hollars |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | 266 |
Release | 2021-09 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1496228421 |
2022 Silver Midwest Book Award Winner At the sound of the bell on the last day of kindergarten, B.J. Hollars and his six-year-old son, Henry, hop in the car to strike out on a 2,500-mile road trip retracing the Oregon Trail. Their mission: to rediscover America, and Americans, along the way. Throughout their two-week adventure, they endure the usual setbacks (car trouble, inclement weather, and father-son fatigue), but their most compelling drama involves people, privilege, and their attempt to find common ground in an all-too-fractured country. Writing in the footsteps of John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley, Hollars picks up the trail with his son more than half a century later. Together they sidle up to a stool at every truck stop, camp by every creek, and roam the West. They encounter not only the beauty and heartbreak of America, but also the beauty and heartbreak of a father and son eager to make the most of their time together. From Chimney Rock to Independence Rock to the rocky coast of Oregon, they learn and relearn the devastating truth of America's exploitative past, as well as their role within it. Go West, Young Man recounts the author's effort to teach his son the difficult realities of our nation's founding while also reaffirming his faith in America today.
The Young Man and the Sea
Title | The Young Man and the Sea PDF eBook |
Author | Rodman Philbrick |
Publisher | Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | 154 |
Release | 2013-03-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0545600308 |
A story of determination and survival from the acclaimed author of FREAK THE MIGHTY. "This thrilling and elegant book ... will hold the interest of even the most stalwart landlubber." -- PWTwelve-year-old Skiff Beaman's mom just died, and his fisherman dad is too depressed to drag himself off the couch and go to work. So these days Skiff has to take care of everything himself. But when his dad's boat sinks, Skiff discovers it will cost thousands to buy a new engine. Skiff's lobster traps won't earn him enough, but there are bigger fish in the sea -- bluefin tuna. If he can catch one of those monster fish, Skiff just might save the boat -- and his family.
Young Man with a Horn
Title | Young Man with a Horn PDF eBook |
Author | Dorothy Baker |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1945 |
Genre | Jazz musicians |
ISBN |
Angry Young Man
Title | Angry Young Man PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Lynch |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 192 |
Release | 2012-08-07 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1442454199 |
Eighteen-year-old Robert tries to help his half-brother Xan, a seventeen-year-old misfit, to make better choices as he becomes increasingly attracted to a variety of protesters, anarchists, and the like.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Title | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man PDF eBook |
Author | James Joyce |
Publisher | Union Square & Co. |
Total Pages | 170 |
Release | 2024-08-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1454954620 |
James Joyce’s deeply personal and “most memorable novel” (H. G. Wells) detailing the spiritual and artistic awakening of Stephen Dedalus, now freshly repackaged for the Union Square & Co. Signature Classics line. James Joyce’s semi-autobiographical first novel explores the author’s own love-hate relationship with Ireland through Stephen Dedalus, Joyce’s literary alter ego. Dedalus yearns to be an artist, but must first overcome the aspects of Irish society, like school and the church, that he feels restrains his creativity and stifles his soul. Joyce’s use of experimental literary techniques, including stream of consciousness, is on full display in his first novel, which he further develops in his later works, Ulysses and Finnegan’s Wake.