Harold's End - Softcover

J.T. LeRoy

 
9780867196146: Harold's End

Synopsis

Harold's End is a street hustler power ballad from San Francisco novelist JT Leroy. A young boy finds solace in a gift from an older, seemingly compassionate man. As with other Leroy stories, it goes from dark to incomprehensibly black. Internationally renowned Australian artist Cherry Hood has created eight unique watercolour paintings based on the character descriptions in the story.

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Review

""LeRoy depicts his ill-begotten characters as tenderly as Jean Genet, and delineates their acts of sadism and self-mutilation as unsparingly as A.M. Homes"

Synopsis

With the unabashed prose force of Dennis Cooper and an unstilting ability to create highly original characters, J.T. Leroy's third novel is a disturbing, autobiographical portrait of the world of young male hustlers, involving a boy and his pet snail, Harold. A young boy finds solace in a gift from an older, seemingly compassionate man. As with other Leroy stories, it goes from dark to incomprehensibly black. Internationally renowned Australian artist Cherry Hood has created eight unique watercolour paintings based on the character descriptions in the story.

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