by Patricia Nell Warren · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780964109933
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«Billy's Boy» is a gay fiction novel by Patricia Nell Warren, published by Wildcat Press in paperback (339 pages, in English).
The first-person narrator, John William, a fourteen-year-old teenager who dreams of becoming an astronaut, moves to Los Angeles with his mother. Amid new friendships and the awakening of his body, he investigates the life of his dead father, a gay runner, and the past of his lesbian mother, in search of his own identity and sexual destiny.
Third installment of the Harlan's Story series, continuation of The Front Runner and Harlan's Race. Winner of the Lambda Literary Award (Editors' Choice, 1997) and finalist for the Independent Publisher Book Award (1998).
For readers of gay fiction, romance and young adult, and for those who follow the Harlan's Story series, after The Front Runner and Harlan's Race.
Patricia Nell Warren, also known by her pen name Patricia Kilina, was an American novelist, poet, editor and journalist. Her second novel, The Front Runner (1974), was the first work of contemporary gay fiction to make the New York Times Best Seller list. Her third novel, The Fancy Dancer (1976), was the first bestseller to portray a gay priest and to explore gay life in a small town.
