An edition of Drôle de garçon (1994)

Funny Boy

A Novel in Six Stories

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An edition of Drôle de garçon (1994)

Funny Boy

A Novel in Six Stories

by

  • ★★★★ 4.00 ·
  • 2 Ratings
  • 97 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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McClelland & Stewart
Language
English
Pages
316

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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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Funny boy: a novel
2015
in English - First William Morrow paperback edition.
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Drôle de garçon
April 6, 2000, Editions 10/18
Mass Market Paperback in French
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Funny boy: a novel
1997, Harcourt Brace
in English - 1st Harvest ed.
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Funny boy
1997, McClelland & Stewart
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Funny boy: a novel
1996, W. Morrow and Co.
in English - 1st U.S. ed.
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Funny Boy: A Novel in Six Stories
1994, McClelland & Stewart
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""Besides Christmas and other festive occasions, spend-the-days were the days most looked forward to by all of us, counsins, aunt, and uncles.""

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Paperback
Number of pages
316
Dimensions
8.8 x 5.8 x 1 inches
Weight
1 pounds

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OL8076445M
Internet Archive
funnyboy00shya
ISBN 10
0771079508
ISBN 13
9780771079504
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25137
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1345416

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