TY - BOOK AU - Murphy,Timothy TI - Getting off clean SN - 0312151322 AV - PS3563.U76196 G4 1997 U1 - 813/.54 20 PY - 1997/// CY - New York PB - St. Martin's Press KW - High school seniors KW - Fiction KW - Coming out (Sexual orientation) KW - Gay high school students KW - Race relations KW - Gay men KW - Massachusetts KW - Bildungsromans KW - gsafd N2 - The one thing that Eric Fitzpatrick wants is to escape--both from his family and the racially tense town in which he lives. The only son of an Italian-Irish family in a working-class suburb of Boston, he intends to go away to college and leave his old life far behind. But all his plans are set askew when he meets Brooks, a mysterious, wealthy Black student at a local prep school. As their relationship grows ever deeper and more complicated, Eric must come to terms not only with his family and community, but with his warring ambitions and desires ER -