- Runaway teenagers, Subculture, Gay, Environmentalists
Kief Hillsbery's *War Boy* is a transcendent literary feat. Told from the perspective of a deaf-mute teenager and charged with the fevered intensity of youth, it is a brilliant evocation of the search for family that will forever alter your perception of what it means to connect.
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Grave, earnest, contemporary and overwhelming.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Kief Hillsbery
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- W. Morrow, Picador, Pan Macmillan
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780060935016
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“I'm Rad I'm deaf I don't talk I'm fourteen I'm telling the story.”
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