Three new books for this weekend
My iLiad got some new fuel in the form of three brand new novels:
Memoirs of a beautiful boy by Robert Leleux “Need I say that, at Beckendorf Junior High, I was the object of mass
violence?” he asks of the era when he went to school sporting pastel
pants and streaked hair, spritzing himself with mineral water. In those
days, he says, he regarded himself as “special, in some way involving
flair and class and heat sensitivity,” without connecting the dots to
realize he was gay...
The bill from my father by Bernard Cooper. A raw memoir where the father really does send the author a bill for his paternal services in the amount of $2 million...
The geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner. The operating conceit of this odyssey memoir is that the author, a professed grouch (“My last name is pronounced ‘whiner,’ and I do my best to live up to the name”), will travel to the world’s happier places to explore to what degree an individual’s happiness is intertwined with a shared geography and culture...
Memoirs of a beautiful boy by Robert Leleux “Need I say that, at Beckendorf Junior High, I was the object of mass
violence?” he asks of the era when he went to school sporting pastel
pants and streaked hair, spritzing himself with mineral water. In those
days, he says, he regarded himself as “special, in some way involving
flair and class and heat sensitivity,” without connecting the dots to
realize he was gay...
The bill from my father by Bernard Cooper. A raw memoir where the father really does send the author a bill for his paternal services in the amount of $2 million...
The geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner. The operating conceit of this odyssey memoir is that the author, a professed grouch (“My last name is pronounced ‘whiner,’ and I do my best to live up to the name”), will travel to the world’s happier places to explore to what degree an individual’s happiness is intertwined with a shared geography and culture...
