The Boy
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.28 (667 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0395901065 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 214 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-21 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The boy's compelling and protean personality (he is Devon to the keepers of the Boys' Home, Alex to the Fatman with whom he lives, Priestly to the young rent-boy who reveres him, and Durwood to Sean's daughter) arches over this disturbing novel and is mirrored in the lives of all the people Sean encounters. With his protean sexuality and personality, the boy insinuates himself into the lives of those he encounters. We witness how he feeds their deepest desires, nourishes their greatest needs, and involves them irrevocably in his own intentions. From these different perspectives we witness the boy's many incarnations, which reflect, aggravate, and distort the desires of those around him, involving these characters irrevocably in his own mysterious intentions. The boy keeps just beyond Sean's reach, then draws him into a final encounter that is both poignant and brutal.This first novel is a penetrating study of innocence and malice ineluctably bound. Winner of the Lambda Literary Foundation's Editors' Choice Award for 1998. Who is the boy? And whose body lies beneath a sheet of blue tarpaulin in the basement of a derelict brewery? The discovery of a chilling diary sends Sean Kennedy, once a foster father to the boy, on a desperate search to unlock the secrets of his tragic past and to learn the truth about the boy's part in the disintegration of Sean's family
DARKGRIMRELENTLESS lawyeraau This book is a psychological foray, a dark and gritty look into the face of consummate evil, whose countenance is that of a mere boy. Known by different names to those with whom he comes in contact, little good follows those who form a relationship with him. The boy, who has the face of an angel, has a soul rife with corruption. . Dancewriter said Be prepared. I read a dozen reviews before buying and reading the book. All if them have merit and are truthful about the dark, disturbing novel, THE BOY. Yes, the male characters are more detailed than the females. The novel is well written, beautfully, thought provoking more times than not.But be prepared for the biggest dissappointment of . A Customer said Some good points. I just finished this book tonight. A few other reviewers mentioned "over-written" and "pretentious". I agree. It's too bad that the author got so intrusive, because it's a great concept for a story. The psychological inferences were very insightful, sometimes brilliant. His sense of mood and place were wonderfully visual. I'm a p
If The Boy has a flaw, it is those glimpses of Freud's shadow sometimes visible in the story's brighter moments, but this is a tiny complaint measured against a work whose thrills derive from the terrible astuteness of its psychology. Of so many characters so well drawn, given the brevity of the book, whom might the speaker be? Have we, too, fallen prey to the wiles of the eponymous, much-aliased and entirely shameless Boy? Thank god the mystery persists. This story--foster father Sean Hennessey's quest for his estranged "son"--doesn't unfold so much as it refolds, reveals, revises a story that has already, in "real" time, begun with a sexual misadventure, proceeded through a series of betrayals and seductions, and ended with a number of bodies strewn along the Thames and through the Engl