The World of Normal Boys

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Winner of the Lambda Literary Award"This first novel is so eloquent because it is hellbent on collaring the reader and telling him or her the whole passionate story." —Edmund White, author of Our Young Man"This is a rich and unflinching book." —The New York Times Book Review"Extraordinary...an exhilarating experience...that Soehnlein has produced as his first novel a work of such maturity and excellence is little short of astounding." —Fenton Johnson, author of Scissors, Paper, RockThe time is the late 1970s—an age of gas shortages, head shops, and Saturday Night Fever. The place, suburban New Jersey. At a time when the teenagers around him are coming of age, Robin MacKenzie is coming undone. While "normal boys" are into cars, sports, and bullying their classmates, Robin enjoys day trips to New York City with his elegant mother, spinning fantastic tales for her amusement in an intimate ritual he has come to...