Sprout
Description
When Sprout and his father move from Long Island to the midst of rural Kansas after the death of his mother, he is sure he will find no friends, no love, no beauty. But friends find him, the strangeness of the landscape fascinates him, and when love shows up in an unexpected place, Sprout realises that Kansas is not quite as empty as he thought it was going to be.
An incredible, literary story of a boy who knows he is gay in a the town that seems to have no place for him to hide.
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Dale Peck is the American novelist and journalist who is known for his acerbic wit and uncompromising critical stance. His novel Martin and John was published to huge critical acclaim over fifteen years ago. Since then, Dale has published a very frank and moving memoir of his father, What We Lost, published by Granta. Dale lives in New York City.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Dedication
- This is the first part!
- Psst
- We must've made a wrong turn at Albuquerque
- What else would I do with my summer vacation?
- Now I gotta cut loose
- The margarita was the only virgin in the house
- Rural gay boy, party of one
- There'll be no dirty parts in this chapter, so don't get your hopes (or anything else!) up
- Attendons: entendre!
- This is the second part!
- Wake-up call
- Like that girl in the pink coat in Schindler's List
- Welcome to the jungle
- We know the sound of two hands clapping, but what is the sound of a hormone?
- The hole story
- Everyone's a clitic
- Cave Canem
- Liquid courage
- No good deed goes unpunished
- The nidus and the nodus (no really, look 'em up)
- This is the last part!
- He's gone
- He's still gone
- Homily to honesty
- Imprint
