The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.65 (840 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312361688 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Brilliant Debut" according to Jonster. I wish I could populate this review with the one-liners that had me laughing so loudly I irritated the cat. What is it about the South that produces such brilliant, colorful, witty, acerbic hothouse flowers? I have seen the names Sedaris and Sessums mentioned frequently in the reviews here. In my humble opinion, Mr. Leleux's style harkens back to Tennessee Williams and, as mentioned, Truman Capote in that he has taken a popular genre (the bitingly-funny-gay-coming-of-age-t. A Texas tiara Reading Robert Leleux's first novel, "The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy" is such a joy that one almost wants to visit Texas.well, visit, but not live there, maybe. His breezy style and cast of offbeat characters is as warm as his home state, with enough aromas to want more. It is terrific.Leleux, whose book centers around his mother and his partner, accomplishes what many writers, especially young ones, fail to do. He keeps the focus largely on his family and friends, while a. The Book Club Cheerleader Gives This Book a 2-Pom Pom Cheer! Every once in a while you read a writer who is so deliciously funny, he makes you wet your spanks. For me this year, that writer was Robert Leleux. Reading about his over-the-top, best-friend-Mother--with whom he spent his childhood Saturday's at Neiman Marcus getting his hair styled and nails lacquered--caused me to ping-pong back and forth between not believing their outrageous behavior and clever dialogue could be true--and wanting with all my heart for it to be absolut
Written with a warmth and a wicked sense of fun that lighten even the most awful circumstances, The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy is a sparkling debut. . In the Dear John letter Daddy left for Mother and me, on a Saturday afternoon in early June 1996, on the inlaid Florentine table in the front entry of our house, which we found that night upon returning from a day spent in the crème-colored light of Neiman’s, Daddy wrote that he was leaving us because Mother was crazy, and because she’d driven me crazy in a way that perfectly suited her own insanity.In a memoir studded with delicious
Featuring a larger-than life mother addicted to shopping and surgical makeovers, Leleux admits to having "tilted" the story so that it "reads better (as in funnier, or happier) than it was lived"; still, it's a rocky trip that obviously required a highly evolved sense of humor to get through (fortunately, Leleux makes himself as big a target as his extravagant mother). Not for the timid, this laugh-out-loud tale of dysfunction and discovery is a compulsively readable treat; any fan of Augusten Burroughs or David Sedaris owes it to themselves to pick it up. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. . Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Teacher, freelance writer and first-tim