Funny Boy
by Shyam Selvadurai
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good/none
- ISBN 10
- 015600500X
- ISBN 13
- 9780156005005
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
Funny boy - lightly read copy of authors first book - pages are clean bright - minimal amounts of wear on its edges... In the world of his large family, affluent Tamils living in Colombo, Arjie is an oddity, a 'funny boy' who prefers dressing as a girl to playing cricket with his brother...FUNNY BOY , somewhat autobiographical through Arjie's eyes, as he comes to terms both with his own homosexuality & racism of the society in which he lives... Sri Lanka, in the North, there is a war going on between the army - Tamil Tigers,gradually it begins to encroach on the family's comfortable life. Sporadic acts of violence flare into full scale riots and lead, ultimately, to tragedy... first novel a master & the mingling of personal & politics,..Written in clear, simple prose, Syam Selvadurai's -first novel is masterly in its mingling of the personal & political implications...Literary Awards Scotiabank Giller Prize, Lambda Literary Award, Amazon-ca First Novel Award...Funny boy -Syam Selvadurai-ISBN 015600500X -9780156005005-Published 1997 by Harvest Brace & Company, San Diego, New York London..First harvest Edition 1997, later printing paperback.Vg-Front cover photo Beverly Brown, cover design Von Andrews, author photo Lily Dong , PB, 310 pages...Subjects young men, Sri Lanka, fiction gay men....Ruth Reaser..LAX Vespa, Los Angeles Culver City- maybe this will do it!-At least you know what you're getting into--Media Mail USPS-you get the copy pictured - carefully Drop kick-packed to protect it - in - transit. 7 Days Coast to Coast, faster if closer..FUNNY BOY 6249 PB ROSE WB 4
Synopsis
Funny Boy is a first-person novel by Canadian author Shyam Selvadurai. First published by McClelland and Stewart in September 1994, the novel won the Lambda Literary Award for gay male fiction and the Books in Canada First Novel Award. Set in Sri Lanka where Selvadurai grew up, Funny Boy is constructed in the form of six poignant stories about a boy coming to age within an wealthy Tamil family in Colombo.
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- Bookseller
- Ruth Reaser LAXVESPA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6249
- Title
- Funny Boy
- Author
- Shyam Selvadurai
- Illustrator
- Front cover photo Beverly Brown, cover design Von Andrews, author photo Lily Dong
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- none
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First harvest Edition later printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 015600500X
- ISBN 13
- 9780156005005
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Orlando, Florida, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1997-06-19
- Keywords
- Funny boy - lightly read copy of authors first book - pages are clean bright - minimal amounts of wear on its edges... In the world of his large family, affluent Tamils living in Colombo, Arjie is an oddity, a 'funny boy' who prefers dressing as a girl to
- Bookseller catalogs
- Gay & Lesbian;
- Size
- 310 pages
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