Sarah Schulman reads at Books Inc
- When
- Mon Nov 10, 2008
- Where
- Books Inc. in the Castro
- Time
- 7:30-8:30pm
- Tags
- Literary Arts, Book Stores, Gay, Gay Culture, Gay Books, Gay Community
Description
Author and journalist Sarah Schulman will be appearing at Books Inc. Market for a reading and signing of her new novel “The Child.”“The Child,” a Lambda Literary Award finalist, is the eleventh and perhaps most controversial book by acclaimed lesbian writer Sarah Schulman, available for the first time in paperback. This novel explores the parameters of queer teen sexuality against a backdrop of hysteria and sanctioned homophobia, based on the 1997 sexual assault and murder of an eleven-year-old boy by a fifteen-year-old.
Stew is a lonely teen who discovers love on an adult website. But when his older boyfriend is arrested in an Internet pedophilia sting, his proclivities are revealed to his family and friends, to his horror. Devastated by these revelations and left to fend for himself, he ends up committing murder.
Brazen and daring in its themes, "The Child" is a powerful indictment of sex panic in America, and a plaintive meditation on isolation and desire.
About the author:
Sarah Schulman is the author of eleven books, including eight novels, the latest being The Child (2006). As a journalist, her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, and Interview. She has won a Guggenheim Fellowship and two American Library Association Gay & Lesbian Book Awards. She lives in New York.
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