Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.23508664
EAN num: 9780670867189
ISBN number: 0670867187
Label: Viking Adult
Manufacturer: Viking Adult
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 240
Printing Date: June 01, 1996
Publishing house: Viking Adult
Sale Popularity Level: 179131
Studio: Viking Adult
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A witty memoir of growing up and coming of age in the suburbs details the trials and tribulations of being an only child, a little pudgy, and gay among the working-class Italians of Little Falls, New Jersey. 25,000 very first printing. $20,000 ad/promo. Tour.
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Very good read. It's funny sad and sweet at the same time. I read it in one day. I could not sepparate from it until the end.
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This is an excellent book...one of my favorite memoirs. It was hard to put down and I was sad when it ended. I am surprised it didn't more "buzz" when it very first came out. It is light-hearted, funny, and very interesting. It reminds me a little of A Girl Named Zippy. I wish he would write a follow-up book. Definately worth the read!
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A BOY NAMED PHYLLIS is a wonderfully hilarious, touching, and original coming out memoir about the pains of growing up VERY gay in an Italian-American household in suburban New Jersey. Witty, raucous, peppered with one-liners, wacky situations, and even wackier characters, this debut book is a minefield of belly laughs. Whether he's discussing true love in Coordinate Geometry class, true lust for David Cassidy, the enduring pains of sissy torture, the unrefined glories of 70s pop culture, or the idiosyncrasies of his family, Frank DeCaro has created a frothy memoir readers aren't likely to forget. This memoir is one that paved the way for the tres-gay, silly, and shamelessly confessional works of David Sedaris and Augusten Burroughs - so if you love their work give it a try.
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Several times when reading this book of reminiscences by a man who escaped uniform suburbia to become an openly gay New York writer, I laughed out loud. I appreciate any book that can inspire a reader to do that; the author has a very funny, succinct writing style. I also appreciate books about people who are other than "mainstream," so I mostly enjoyed this one. However, as a heterosexual female, I didn't appreciate the writer's graphic descriptions of just what he likes (or liked as a teenager) to do with his male partners. When readers are trying to broaden their minds by choosing books about people not exactly like themselves, that kind of detail isn't what they're normally after. If this author has a second book, hopefully he's gotten that type of thing out of his system.
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This is a very well told story of growing up different. I also loved his rememberances of being part of the 70's disco culture.
Autobiographies live or die based on the "tone" and how much the writer shares with the reader. Here the tone is humorous and refreshing - the details are moving.
This is a great book and deserves more attention. I have had my friends all read and love it. :)
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