The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things - Stories

Zusatztext "LeRoy manages to write simply about the most tangled of emotions -- and to describe! without hatred or self-pity! the most monstrous of deeds." Informationen zum Autor JT LeRoy is a literary persona created by Laura Albert. She is the author of Sarah, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, and Harold’s End. lauraalbert.org. Klappentext This book of interconnected stories depicts the chaotic life of a young boy on the run with his teenage mother. When Sarah reclaims Jeremiah from his foster parents, he finds himself catapulted into her world of motels and truck stops, exposed to the abusive, exploitative men she encounters. As he learns to survive in this harrowing environment, Jeremiah also learns to love his mother, even as she descends into drug-fueled madness. Told in spare, lyrical prose, rich with imagination and dark humor, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things transforms the savagery of Jeremiah?s world into an indelible experience of compassion. This special edition includes an additional seven stories, previously uncollected. Zusammenfassung National Bestseller With a new foreword by Jeff Feuerzeig A timely reissue of the extraordinary stories by JT LeRoy/Laura Albert that won international acclaim! to be timed with the theatrical release of the documentary Author: The JT LeRoy Story. “A startling achievement.”— Publishers Weekly This book of interconnected stories depicts the chaotic life of a young boy on the run with his teenage mother. When Sarah reclaims Jeremiah from his foster parents! he finds himself catapulted into her world of motels and truck stops! exposed to the abusive! exploitative men she encounters. As he learns to survive in this harrowing environment! Jeremiah also learns to love his mother! even as she descends into drug-fueled madness. Told in spare! lyrical prose! rich with imagination and dark humor!  The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things transforms the savagery of Jeremiah's world into an indelible experience of compassion. This special edition includes an additional seven stories! previously uncollected! by JT LeRoy! the literary persona of Laura Albert.     ...

Product details

• Authors: J. T. LeRoy, JT LeRoy
• Assisted by: Jeff Feuerzeig (Foreword)
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9780062641274
• ISBN: 978-0-06-264127-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Romance, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Relating to lesbians, Anthologies: general, Relating to gay people, US South, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Romance / Contemporary, FICTION: Romance / Collections & Anthologies, FICTION: Short Stories (single author), FICTION: Coming of Age, FICTION: Classics, LGBTQ STUDIES: LITERATURE, FICTION: LGBTQ+ / Gay, FICTION: LGBTQ+ / Lesbian, Street fiction / urban fiction, Modern and Contemporary romance, Classic fiction: general and literary, LGBTQ Studies / Literature