Candy Everybody Wants
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (945 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0061336963 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 252 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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Josh Kilmer-Purcell is the bestselling author of the memoir I Am Not Myself These Days and the novel Candy Everybody Wants, and the star of Planet Green's documentary television series The Fabulous Beekman Boys. He and his partner, Brent Ridge, divide their time between Manhattan and the Beekman Farm.
After writing and starring in his home-shot, gay coming-of-age soap, Dallasty! Jayson sets his sights on Hollywood. All rights reserved. From Publishers Weekly Memoirist Kilmer-Purcell (I Am Not Myself These Days) tells the sad tale of wannabe TV star Jayson Blocher, a suburban high school student in the 1980s Midwest. . (June)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Kilmer-Purcell certainly has interesting and tough-minded things to say about being young, gay and celebrity-obsessed in the 1980s, but the characters
Somewhere out there his destiny awaits—along with the discovery of first love, some unusual coincidences, a kidnapping mystery and the sobering truth that being America's sweetheart can leave a very sour aftertaste.. So he's off, accompanied by an ever-changing cast of quirky extended family members, on an extremely bumpy journey from rural Wisconsin to a New York escort agency for Broadway chorus boys, to a Hollywood sitcom set. From the critically acclaimed author of I Am Not Myself These Days comes the very odd adventures of a starry-eyed young man from the Midwest seeking fame and fortune in the flamboyant surreality of New York, Los Angeles and everywhere in between.Jayson Blocher is tired of worshiping pop culture; he
Very Gay, Very 80's, Very Funny This novel goes from gay and ridiculous to even more gay and more ridiculous. Josh Kilmer-Purcell manages to write a book that really couldn't be more different than his memoir. Jayson Blocher is like an amalgamation of every over-the-top child star ever, but gay. Every character her is a caricature to the n. MWR said Loved the silly beginning, but it went downhill.. Not a bad read, but got wearisome by the end. It starts outrageously silly and creative, a lot of fun, but slides downhill the whole way through as the author tries to tell a somewhat serious story, unoriginal and stretching reality a little too far. By the end, I'm not sure what the story was or what the au. Bob Lind said Fasten your seat belt, and put phasers on STUN-ning!. Reading kind of like a VH1-style "I Love the 80's" special on steroids, "Candy Everyone Wants" is a madcap, extremely "over-the-top" story of a rather eventful year in the life of Jayson Blocher, a joyously flamboyantly gay boy from a small town in Wisconsin. A series of events lead to his leaving home to go