基本信息出版社：Plume
页码：352 页
出版日期：2007年03月
ISBN：0452288010
International Standard Book Number：0452288010
条形码：9780452288010
EAN：9780452288010
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语

内容简介 Growing up in the Missouri Ozarks in the 60s and 70s, Wade Rouse was always a bit of an outsider. While some of his roughneck peers wore Wrangler jeans and had stylish crew cuts, Wade feathered his golden hair and sported a handmade leatherwork belt bearing his unfortunate childhood nickname, Wee-Pooh. Taunted by his classmates, Wade finds comfort in his offbeat but lovable family, but when a tragic motorcycle accident ends his brother?s life, Wade buries his sexuality along with his brother, vowing to be the son he believes his family wants. America?s Boy is Wade Rouse?s bittersweet and utterly moving tale of self-denial and self-discovery, and a tender tribute to the eccentric family that carried him through it all. Wade?s battle with himself? and the long road back to self-acceptance?forms the heart of America?s Boy, a joyful and courageous memoir about a boy learning to embrace his own true nature.
作者简介 Wade Rouse is a writer and journalist whose articles have appeared in The Chicago Reader, The St. Louis Riverfront Times and Michigan Blue magazine. A graduate of Drury College and Northwestern University, he was formerly the public relations director at one of the nation?s oldest and most prestigious private schools. America?s Boy is his first book.
媒体推荐 A revelatory story about acceptance, pride and the many ways even a seemingly prejudiced family can surprise us . . . a real tearjerker. -- The Washington Post

Bittersweet. -- Jane magazine

Brutally funny, extremely observant, and poignantly heartfelt. -- Genre

Funny, affecting . . . The book comes alive with tender portraits of kitsch and kin. -- Publishers Weekly
编辑推荐 A revelatory story about acceptance, pride and the many ways even a seemingly prejudiced family can surprise us . . . a real tearjerker. (The Washington Post)^Funny, affecting . . . The book comes alive with tender portraits of kitsch and kin. (Publishers Weekly)^Brutally funny, extremely observant, and poignantly heartfelt. (Genre)^Bittersweet. (Jane magazine)