Sarah - Hardcover

LeRoy, JT

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1582340765 ISBN 13: 9781582340760

Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, 2000

Synopsis

The twelve-year-old son of a prostitute disguises himself as a girl, taking his mother's name, Sarah, and goes hitchhiking through West Virginia, where he gets mistaken for a saint and meets a variety of unusual characters.

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Review:

A deft and imaginative...novel (New York Times Book Review)

LeRoy's work is a startling achievement in his accelerating mastery of the literary form (Publishers Weekly)

Extraordinarily, LeRoy manages to lace this story with tenderness and humour. Not for the fainthearted, these few raw pages constitute a breathtaking debut (Guardian)

Sarah has a strong seductive quality, and it is impossible to forget. LeRoy's ability to present trauma and tenderness simultaneously is entirely his own. 'This book is nothing short of a miracle,' LeRoy has said. I have to agree (New Statesman)

Extraordinary. LeRoy writes with astonishing flair and confidence, making Sarah a very impressive debut indeed (Sunday Telegraph)

Sarah is surprising, upsetting, offensive, and fun. It's everything a good read - or good sex for that matter - should be (Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club)

Like a cross between Nathanael West and Mark Twain, drunk out of their minds and collaborating on Charlie's Angels meets The Headless Horseman - Sarah is a wildly comic tour de force and a brilliant debut (Mary Gaitskill, author of Two Girls, Fat and Thin)

JT LeRoy is one of the most interesting, passionate and gifted of writers, very few have his heart and courage. I admire his writing tremendously (Lou Reed (The Velvet Underground))

LeRoy brushed achingly close to duplicating Genet's legerdemain - mythologizing self-abasement so as to transform it into glorious apotheosis (New York Times)

I have just finished reading Sarah and found it incredible, very moving, very sad and very beautiful (PJ Harvey)

Book Description:

A reissue of the bestselling novel by JT LeRoy/Laura Albert - published to coincide with the new Jeff Feuerzeig documentary: Author: The JT LeRoy Story, which will have a theatrical release in July 2016.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1582340765
• ISBN 13: 9781582340760
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 166