Boy Erased - A Memoir of Identity, Faith and Family

Informationen zum Autor Garrard Conley's fiction and nonfiction can be found in Time, Vice and on CNN.com, Buzzfeed, and elsewhere. He has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf, Sewanee, and Elizabeth Kostova Foundation writers' conferences. A finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Boy Erased, Conley lives and teaches in Brooklyn, New York. Klappentext Soon to be a major motion picture adapted and directed by Joel Edgerton, Garrard Conley's memoir documents experiences as a young gay man in Baptist Arkansas, attending a church-supported conversion program and yet still maintaining a sense of true self through this traumatic experience, drawing on reserves of strength and love powerful enough to withstand it.

Product details

• Authors: Garrard Conley
• Assisted by: Garrard Conley (Illustration), GARRARD CONLEY (Illustration)
• Publisher: William Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9780008294908
• ISBN: 978-0-00-829490-8
• No. of pages: 340
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 22 mm
• Series: 182 POCHE; 182 POCHE
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; USA, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious, Memoirs, PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality, Personal religious testimony & popular inspirational works, c 1500 onwards to present day, United States of America, USA, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, Autobiography: religious & spiritual, True stories of survival of abuse & injustice, RELIGION / Christian Living / General, Religious mission and Religious Conversion, Religious aspects of sexuality, gender and relationships, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LGBTQ+, Religious life & practice, Religious aspects of sexuality, gender & relationships, Religious institutions & organizations, Religious counselling, LGBTQ+ topics: coming out