- Teenage boys, Families, Juvenile fiction, Interpersonal relations
Thirteen-year-old Davy has a difficult time adjusting to his grandmother's death and life in New York with his erratic mother. He becomes close friends with a male classmate at his new school. The friendship later turns sexual, eventually causing Davy to struggle with feelings of guilt. It was one of the first mainstream teen novels to deal with homosexuality.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and intimate.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- John Donovan
- First published
- 1969
- Pages
- 189
- Publisher
- North Star Editions, Alfaguara, HarperCollins
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780356031934
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