Sign-In
Cart
Sugarless
Hardcover
Please select the version of book you would like to purchase.
ISBN10: 0299233804
ISBN13: 9780299233808
Publisher: Terrace Books
Published: Mar 18 2003
Pages: 274
Weight: 0.95
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Awards: Lambda Literary Awards
ISBN13: 9780299233808
Publisher: Terrace Books
Published: Mar 18 2003
Pages: 274
Weight: 0.95
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Awards: Lambda Literary Awards
Things look bad for Rick Lahrem, a high school sophomore in a cookie-cutter Chicago suburb in 1976. His mother s second husband is a licensed psychologist who eats like an ape, his stepsister is a stoner slut, and his father is engaged to a Southern belle. Rick s only solace is his growing collection of original Broadway-cast LPs, bought on the sly at Wax Trax.
After he brings two girls in speech class to tears by reading a story aloud, Rick is coaxed onto the interscholastic forensics team to perform an eight-minute dramatic interpretation of The Boys in the Band, the controversial sixties play about homosexuality. Unexpectedly successful at this oddball event, Rick begins winning tournaments and making friends with his teammates.
Rick also discovers the joys of sex with a speech coach from a rival school just as his mother, reacting to a deteriorating home environment, makes an unnerving commitment to Christ. The newly confident Rick assumes this too shall pass until the combined forces of family, sex, and faith threaten to undo him at the state meet in Peoria.
James Magruder s Sugarless offers a ruefully entertaining take on the simultaneous struggles of coming-out, coming-of-age, and coming-to-Jesus.A selection of InsightOut Book Club
Finalist, Lambda Book Award for Gay Debut Fiction, Lambda Literary Foundation
Finalist, TLA Gaybie Award for Best Gay Fiction
Semi-finalist, James Branch Cabell First Novelist Award, Virginia Commonwealth University
Semi-finalist, William Saroyan International Prize For Writing, Stanford University
Rick also discovers the joys of sex with a speech coach from a rival school just as his mother, reacting to a deteriorating home environment, makes an unnerving commitment to Christ. The newly confident Rick assumes this too shall pass until the combined forces of family, sex, and faith threaten to undo him at the state meet in Peoria.
James Magruder s Sugarless offers a ruefully entertaining take on the simultaneous struggles of coming-out, coming-of-age, and coming-to-Jesus.A selection of InsightOut Book Club
Finalist, Lambda Book Award for Gay Debut Fiction, Lambda Literary Foundation
Finalist, TLA Gaybie Award for Best Gay Fiction
Semi-finalist, James Branch Cabell First Novelist Award, Virginia Commonwealth University
Semi-finalist, William Saroyan International Prize For Writing, Stanford University
Also in
General GLBTQIA Fiction
Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan CI Fu (Novel) Vol. 8 (Special Edition)
Mo Xiang Tong Xiu
Paperback
$19.99
That's What Friends Are for: A Hilarious, Tender Story Based on the Golden Girls
Rouse, Wade
Hardcover
$27.54
Heap Earth Upon It: Exclusive American Edition with Additional Material
Howarth, Chloe Michelle
Paperback
$18.89
The Impossible Garden of Clara Thorne: A Cozy, Sapphic Romantasy with Gardens, a Quest, and Lots of Spice!
England, Summer N.
Paperback
$17.99
Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan CI Fu (Deluxe Hardcover Novel) Vol. 1
Mo Xiang Tong Xiu
Hardcover
$26.99
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo DAO Zu Shi (Deluxe Hardcover Novel) Vol. 5
Mo Xiang Tong Xiu
Hardcover
$26.99
The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother): A Novel (National Book Award Winner)
Alameddine, Rabih
Paperback
$16.20
The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta de Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 11 (Special Edition)
Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou
Paperback
$28.49