An edition of Dream Boy (1995)

Dream boy

1st Scribner Paperback Fiction ed.
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An edition of Dream Boy (1995)

Dream boy

1st Scribner Paperback Fiction ed.
  • 4.7 (3 ratings) ·
  • 43 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 3 Have read

First love is never easy. But when the new boy in a small town is being secretly abused by his father, first love might be the only thing that can save him.

With his mother busy in the kitchen and his drunken father reading scripture in the living room, Nathan can watch his schoolmate Roy from his upstairs bedroom window and dream about a life free from his father's night-time prowling. Nathan feels safer with Roy in the house next door and safer still with Roy beside him. Studying algebra shoulder to shoulder on Nathan's bed, one thing leads to another. But where will love lead Nathan?

In a corner of the rural South blistering with hatred and petty meanness, Nathan and Roy must hide their love from their friends, church, and families. But that comes easily to Nathan, who is used to keeping secrets. He is only afraid of the one secret he has always kept, even from Roy -- the terrible truth about his father that makes his life impossible.

Fleeing the house one night with only a blanket to shelter him, Nathan escapes with Roy on a camping trip to the haunted ruins of a plantation. As the boys track a path through the otherworldly wilderness, a sense of unnerving peace begins to surface in Nathan, along with the awful certainty that he will never return home.

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
195

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Dream Boy
Dream Boy
March 22, 2003, Anne-Marie Métailié
Paperback in French
Cover of: Dream Boy.
Dream Boy.
1997, Fischer, Simon and Schuster
in English
Cover of: Dream boy
Dream boy
1997, Scribner Paperback Fiction
in English - 1st Scribner Paperback Fiction ed.
Cover of: Dream Boy
Dream Boy
1995, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Hardcover in English - 1st edition

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Edition Notes

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3557.R4949 D74 1997, PS3557.R4949D74 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
195 p. ;
Number of pages
195

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL971449M
Internet Archive
dreamboy00grim
ISBN 10
0684829924
LCCN
96008237
OCLC/WorldCat
1014211293
Library Thing
20214
Goodreads
220754

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On Sunday in the new church, Preacher John Roberts tells about the disciple Jesus loved whose name was also John, how at the Last Supper John lay his head tenderly on Jesus's breast.
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