- Christianity, Diaries, Family relationships, Gay men
Bobby Griffith was an all-American boy ...and he was gay. Faced with an irresolvable conflict-for both his family and his religion taught him that being gay was "wrong"-Bobby chose to take his own life.Prayers for Bobby, nominated for a 1996 Lambda Literary Award, is the story of the emotional journey that led Bobby to this tragic conclusion.
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Earnest, grave, spare and overwhelming.
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- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Leroy Aarons
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- HarperOne, HarperCollins, HarperSanFrancisco
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780061951954
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“I first learned of the Griffith family in a 1989 article in the San Francisco Examiner.”
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