King of angels : a novel about the genesis of identity and belief / Perry Brass.
Material type: TextPublication details: Bronx, NY : Belhue Press, c2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: 360 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 9781892149145
- 1892149141
- 813/.6 23
- PS3552.R336 K56 2012
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1963. John F. Kennedy is president. Civil rights is catching fire, as another community -- of bachelor men -- is emerging as one to be despised or acknowledged. Twelve-year-old Benjamin Rothberg, who lives in a suburb of Savannah with "the most ravishing name in the world," the Isle of Hope, with his classically beautiful Southern WASP mother and his magnetic father Robby, a smart, dark Sephardic-Jewish salesman, is trying to figure out who he is. He must change identities from a smart, precocious, self-aware kid to masquerade and pass as a regular guy, and he grows into a sexually curious (and possibly gay) young man, experiencing a fragile adolescent innocence and attraction to a pretty girl. Set in the haunting coastal South, the book is about many communities coming together in an explosive time -- Southern Jews, African-Americans, Southern Catholics, an emerging gay one, and the secret underground world of boys, their crushes and conflicts, their attachments and hates. It is also about the seductive attractions of self-knowledge and the men and women who open their hearts to it, amidst the struggles of the soul itself.--Adapted from publisher's description.
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