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| Original Title: | Sarah |
| ISBN: | 158234146X (ISBN13: 9781582341460) |
| Edition Language: | English |
J.T. LeRoy
Paperback | Pages: 160 pages Rating: 3.47 | 3692 Users | 288 Reviews
Details Of Books Sarah
| Title | : | Sarah |
| Author | : | J.T. LeRoy |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 160 pages |
| Published | : | June 9th 2001 by Bloomsbury USA (first published 2000) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. LGBT. GLBT. Queer. Contemporary. Novels |
Chronicle Conducive To Books Sarah
Cherry Vanilla, twelve years old with a penchant for short leather skirts and make-up, has one dream: to become the most famous 'lot lizard', or truck stop whore, in the business. With his blond curls and his naked ambition he is determined to be more woman than most, and to match his idol, rival, and mother, Sarah. Adopting her name and sex, he heads off into the dangerous and fantastic worlds pocketed away in the West Virginian wilds. On his journey for fame he meets with sinister pimps, luck-restoring Jack-a-lopes, superstitious prostitutes who take him for a saint, and a host of bizarre and beautiful outcasts that make up his unusual, heartbreaking world.Rating Of Books Sarah
Ratings: 3.47 From 3692 Users | 288 ReviewsWeigh Up Of Books Sarah
Disturbing and fascinating with an excellent grasp on slang and mannerisms, but lacking a narrative that compels outside of the shock value. Not that the shock value is bad, per se, it just didn't feel like a means to an end. Some sections were a little haphazard, and while the characterization is the strong point, the actual plot lags behind the limited character growth. Pooh and Sarah/Sam's interaction is among some of the strongest and simultaneously weakest in the novel, with similar issues(I'm glad I missed out on the J.T. LeRoy hoax. So let's completely ignore that.)Sarah is about Cherry Vanilla , a boy so desperate for love, any inkling of something that resembles love, that he will go to any lengths for it. Especially from his brash, neglectful mother, Sarah. Sarah who slaps him across the face. Sarah who used to dress him as a girl to help her steal from the supermarket. Sarah who abandons him for months at a time all throughout the rural States... But she always comes back,
The Correspondents, #1Dear J T Leroy,I am your biggest fandangle. I love how you wrote those two books about child abuse under a fake name. I love how you paid a boring Brooklyn writer to pretend to be you to make the shitty shit more real. When I was a child I too hung around trailer park hookers and helped perform fellatio on beer-sodden belliferous brutes. (I didnt really, but hey!) I like how your books are written at a level children can understand and from the POV of kids, because if there
I doubt this book would have anything of the modest cult reputation it briefly enjoyed if it weren't for the myth of JT LeRoy that lent it some very dubious "authenticity." It's not that there isn't a compelling story here: mother/son dependency, sexual exploitation, transgendering---hey, it could have been something amazing had the author had any concern whatsoever for the writing and not in manufacturing a "legend" of a life story. But now that LeRoy has been debunked as a fraud, the attention
When this book first came out, everyone was raving about it. It was touted as the true story of a boy whose mother was a truck stop hooker and drug addict, who groomed him to work in the "family business" at a very young age. It's haunting and beautifully written. Once you read it, you can't forget it. JT Leroy became an instant celebrity. Everyone wanted to interview him, and because of his strange upbringing, he felt more comfortable dressing as a girl during his appearances. No problem there,
Very well remember the controversy around this book in the early 2000's with the unmasking of the hoax in 2006 by New York Magazine and the New York times -- for more information on the fraud/hoax about the author: http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/j... The woman who sold the film rights to the book was subsequently sued for fraud and had to pay damages. And the woman she paid to "appear" as the author, wrote her own book in 2008. The more serious damage I think resides with both the
I finally decided to read this much-lauded piece of cult fiction recently and I have to say Im so glad I did. I can now call myself a J.T. LeRoy fan, folks.This is the story of Cherry Vanilla, a teen transsexual trucker prostitute. This amazing story takes place in two separate truck stops in West Virginia. At first I found the reading of this book daunting because of the local hillbilly dialect its written in, but after you get through that hurdle, an amazing story starts to unfold before you.
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