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Funny boy

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An edition of Drôle de garçon (1994)

Funny boy

a novel

1st Harvest ed.

by

  • ★★★★ 4.0 (2 ratings) ·
  • 107 Want to read
  • 9 Currently reading
  • 6 Have read

Arjie is funny. The second son of a privileged family in Sri Lanka, he prefers staging make-believe wedding pageants with his female cousins to battling balls with the other boys. When his parents discover his innocent pastime, Arjie is forced to abandon his idyllic childhood games and adopt the rigid rules of an adult world. Bewildered by his incipient sexual awakening, mortified by the bloody Tamil-Sinhalese conflicts that threaten to tear apart his homeland, Arjie painfully grows toward manhood and an understanding of his own different identity.

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Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Language
English
Pages
310

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Subjects

Fiction, Gay men, Young men, Literature, Fiction, general, Gay men, fiction, Sri lanka, fiction, Domestic fiction, Gay, Fiction - General, Unabridged Audio - Fiction/General, Audio Adult: Books On Tape, Literary, LGBTQ novels, Stonewall Book Awards, Lambda Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Award Winner, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, gay, Fiction, lgbtq+, gay

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Sri Lanka

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Cover of: Funny boy
Funny boy: a novel
2015
in English - First William Morrow paperback edition.
Cover of: Drôle de garçon
Drôle de garçon
April 6, 2000, Editions 10/18
Mass Market Paperback in French
Cover of: Funny boy
Funny boy: a novel
1997, Harcourt Brace
in English - 1st Harvest ed.
Cover of: Funny boy
Funny boy
1997, McClelland & Stewart
in English - Trade pbk. ed.
Cover of: Funny boy
Funny boy: a novel
1996, W. Morrow and Co.
in English - 1st U.S. ed.
Cover of: Funny Boy
Funny Boy: A Novel in Six Stories
1994, McClelland & Stewart
Paperback in English

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"A marvelous novel about growing up gay in Sri Lanka ..."--Cover.

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Series
A Harvest book

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Dewey Decimal Class
823
Library of Congress
PR9440.9.S42 F86 1997, PR9440.9.S42F86 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
310 p. ;
Number of pages
310

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Open Library
OL661344M
Internet Archive
funnyboynovel00selv_0
ISBN 10
015600500X
LCCN
97006782
OCLC/WorldCat
36520971
Library Thing
25137
Goodreads
111389

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