The Resource Desert boys, Chris McCormick
Desert boys, Chris McCormick
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The item Desert boys, Chris McCormick represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- Summary
- "In the tradition of startling debuts such as We, the Animals by Justin Torres, Desert Boys follows the life of Daley Kushner, growing up, coming out, and grappling with the remnants of his childhood in California's Mojave Desert. This series of powerful, linked stories illuminates Daley's world--the family, friends, and community that have both formed and constrained him, and his new life in San Francisco. Back home, the desert preys on those who cannot conform: an alfalfa farmer on the outskirts of town; two young girls whose curiosity leads to danger; a black politician who once served as his school's Confederate mascot; Daley's mother, an immigrant from Armenia; and Daley himself, introspective and queer. Meanwhile, in another desert on the other side of the world, war threatens to fracture Daley's most meaningful--and most fraught--connection to home, his friendship with Robert Karinger. Desert Boys traces the development of towns into cities, of boys into men, and the haunting effects produced when the two transformations overlap. Both a bildungsroman and a portrait of a changing place, the book mines the terrain between the desire to escape and the hunger to belong"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 226 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250141019
- Label
- Desert boys
- Title
- Desert boys
- Statement of responsibility
- Chris McCormick
- Subject
-
- trueMale friendship
- trueMojave Desert
- Mojave Desert -- Fiction
- truePsychological fiction
- San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction
- trueSan Francisco, California
- trueWar and society
- trueYoung men
- Young men -- Fiction
- trueBelonging
- trueBildungsromans
- trueBoys
- Boys -- Fiction
- City and town life -- Fiction
- trueCity life
- Coming of age -- Fiction
- trueComing out (Sexual or gender identity)
- trueFamilies
- Friendship -- Fiction
- trueGay men
- trueGrowing up
- trueInterpersonal relations
- Male friendship -- Fiction
- Mohave Desert -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "In the tradition of startling debuts such as We, the Animals by Justin Torres, Desert Boys follows the life of Daley Kushner, growing up, coming out, and grappling with the remnants of his childhood in California's Mojave Desert. This series of powerful, linked stories illuminates Daley's world--the family, friends, and community that have both formed and constrained him, and his new life in San Francisco. Back home, the desert preys on those who cannot conform: an alfalfa farmer on the outskirts of town; two young girls whose curiosity leads to danger; a black politician who once served as his school's Confederate mascot; Daley's mother, an immigrant from Armenia; and Daley himself, introspective and queer. Meanwhile, in another desert on the other side of the world, war threatens to fracture Daley's most meaningful--and most fraught--connection to home, his friendship with Robert Karinger. Desert Boys traces the development of towns into cities, of boys into men, and the haunting effects produced when the two transformations overlap. Both a bildungsroman and a portrait of a changing place, the book mines the terrain between the desire to escape and the hunger to belong"--
- Award
- Stonewall Book Award for the Barbara Gittings Literature Award, 2017.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10485720
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1987-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- McCormick, Chris
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Friendship
- Coming of age
- Boys
- Young men
- Male friendship
- City and town life
- Mohave Desert
- Mojave Desert
- San Francisco (Calif.)
- Target audience
- adult
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- fiction
- Label
- Desert boys, Chris McCormick
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000056980095
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 226 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250141019
- Lccn
- 2015044337
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40026038388
- System control number
- (OCoLC)918994721
- Label
- Desert boys, Chris McCormick
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000056980095
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 226 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250141019
- Lccn
- 2015044337
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40026038388
- System control number
- (OCoLC)918994721
Subject
- trueMale friendship
- trueMojave Desert
- Mojave Desert -- Fiction
- truePsychological fiction
- San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction
- trueSan Francisco, California
- trueWar and society
- trueYoung men
- Young men -- Fiction
- trueBelonging
- trueBildungsromans
- trueBoys
- Boys -- Fiction
- City and town life -- Fiction
- trueCity life
- Coming of age -- Fiction
- trueComing out (Sexual or gender identity)
- trueFamilies
- Friendship -- Fiction
- trueGay men
- trueGrowing up
- trueInterpersonal relations
- Male friendship -- Fiction
- Mohave Desert -- Fiction
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