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Circulated copies of LeRoy's handwritten notebook pages brought early attention to the then unpublished author. In print for the first time, these loosely connected autobiographical stories describe the harrowing experiences of a young boy's life on the run.
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Grave, earnest, contemporary and prestige.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- JT LeRoy
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 252
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury USA, HarperCollins Publishers, Harper Perennial
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780062641274
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