by J. T. LeRoy · Like · Tapa dura · ISBN 9789524715331
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«Petollinen on ihmissydän» is the novel by J. T. LeRoy published by Like in hardback (253 pages, in Finnish).
Jeremiah, a seven-year-old boy, is snatched away from his adoptive parents by his biological mother Sarah, a prostitute and drug addict, and dragged along highways, through truck stops, and into abuse. From his child’s perspective, the narrative portrays abandonment, mistreatment, and the search for affection in a hostile environment, with a destructive and ambivalent motherhood.
The original English-language work, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, was published in 2001; the Finnish edition, translated by Einari Aaltonen, came out in 2005.
Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for gay fiction in 2001, it will appeal to readers of queer fiction and visceral literature.
Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy, or simply JT LeRoy, is a literary persona created in the 1990s by American writer Laura Albert. LeRoy was presented as the author of three books of fiction, which were purportedly semi-autobiographical accounts by a teenage boy of his experiences of poverty, drug use, and emotional and sexual abuse in his childhood and adolescence from rural West Virginia to California. Albert wrote these works, and communicated with people in the persona of LeRoy via phone and e-mail. Following the release of the first novel Sarah, Albert's sibling-in-law Savannah Knoop began to make public appearances as the supposed writer. The works attracted considerable literary and celebrity attention, and the authenticity of LeRoy has been a subject of debate, even as details of the creation came to light in the 2000s.
