The Best Little Boy in the World Grows Up

Zusatztext "Witty and affirming." --Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Hilarious . . . His strong sense of fun keeps the pages turning! and beyond the high spirits! a more touching revelation begins to emerge. . . . Tobias has bottled the secret of happiness and learned how to pass it on." --San Francisco Chronicle "If Andy Tobias were a company! he'd be Fortune 500. . . . He's blue-chip! top-drawer! a hot ticket. Read this book." --RITA MAE BROWN Informationen zum Autor Andrew Tobias was born in New York and attended Harvard College and Harvard Business School.  He is the author of The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need , which has sold over one million copies, as well as eight other books, the most recent of which is My Vast Fortune .  His work has appeared in Time, Worth , and Parade , and his name is well known to the computer buffs who for a decade used Andrew Tobias's Managing Your Money to take control of their finances.  He has received both the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism and the Consumer Federation of America Media Service Award.  He lives in Miami, New York, and [e-mail]. Klappentext John Reid's The Best Little Boy in the World was hailed as a classic memoir of growing up gay in a straight world. But "John Reid" didn't write it. Years would pass before the writer could reveal his true identity as Andrew Tobias, America's bestselling financial guru, author of The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need. Now, twenty-five years later, Tobias, proud to use his real name, brings his remarkable life story up to date. Writing with his customary charm and frank humor, Tobias tells of love affairs and heartbreak, hot New York parties and tough political battles, the excitement of genuine social change and the tragedy of seeing dear friends die young. Here too are the unforgettable scenes of Tobias revealing his sexual orientation not only to his parents but to the president of the United States. The author is an irresistible companion as he shares with us his proud stories, embarrassing confessions, and hilarious musings on "the homosexual lifestyle." Witty, heartfelt, and wonderfully affirming in every sense, this is Andrew Tobias's finest book to date. Leseprobe 1 ———   “What do you mean, ‘Proposed Epilogue’?” my editor at G. P. Putnam & Sons asked a quarter century ago when he had finished reading the final draft of The Best Little Boy in the World.   We had just gotten through a long discussion—I wouldn’t call it a fight—where I was trying to persuade him to let me use “The Red Crayon” as my pen name, which he said was stupid. (How would it be alphabetized in Books in Print—under Crayon?) And now we were on to the fight—I wouldn’t call it a discussion—over what to call the last section of the book. To me, this was even more important.   The pen name thing I just thought was clever, and might cause reviewers to focus on an anecdote in the book about how once, when I was about eleven and incredibly sheltered … I mean incredibly sheltered, and even more incredibly afraid someone would discover My Secret … I had been at a party where we were all given crayons and paper and instructed to write some really terrible word. The slips of paper—all anonymous—would then be collected, and the hostess, also about eleven, would read some dumb fill-in-the-blanks story about a princess. (This was back in the days before most eleven-year-olds had beepers and subscriptions to Wired.) So, being the best little boy in the world, and crouching back there behind the couch with my crayon and scrap of paper, I did exactly what I was told. I wrote the absolute worst word I could think of. And then our hostess began reading.   “So the … toilet … princess and the … booger … prince went down to the … slimeball … fountain and”—all was g...

Product details

• Authors: John Reid, Andrew Tobias
• Publisher: Ballantine
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.12.1999
• EAN: 9780345423795
• ISBN: 978-0-345-42379-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 203 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries