King of angels : a novel about the genesis of identity and belief / Perry Brass.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Bronx, NY : Belhue Press, c2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: 360 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781892149145
  • 1892149141
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.6 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3552.R336 K56 2012
Summary: 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.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Stonewall Fiction FIC BRA 2012 1 Available 18921491451

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.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

Stonewall National Library & Archives
1300 East Sunrise Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304