Name of the book: Every
Boy Should Have a Man
Author:
Preston L. Allen
Publisher:
Akashic Books
What's the book about?
In a world
where Oafs are at the top of the food chain and humans have become pets, what
happens when a "female man" wanders into the life of a poor, young
oaf?
Why am I reading the book?
Preston
Allen is one of the most gifted writers working in Miami. Read all of his
books. You will not be disappointed.
Quote from the book: [Description of the mans] "In
color, they ranged from the crystalline pale of a sea bell to the golden
yellow-brown of a burnt met stick...And their noses! They were generously bulbous, impertinently pointed, gallantly winged, impudently pugged, or nobly sloping like an oaf's."
Where to buy: http://www.amazon.com/Every-Boy-Should-Have-ebook/dp/B00CAZ49BE/ref=dp_kinw_strp_1
Preston L.
Allen grew up in Boston and Miami, where as a latchkey eldest brother of five
he learned to tell stories to entertain the others and keep them from bouncing
off the walls while their parents were at work.
A recipient
of a State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship in Fiction and winner of the
Sonja H. Stone Prize in Literature, he is author of the short story collection Churchboys and Other Sinners (Carolina
Wren Press 2003) and the novels All or
Nothing (Akashic 2007) and Jesus Boy
(Akashic 2010), which "O the Oprah
Magazine" listed as one of "Ten More Titles to Read Now,"
Dennis Lehane called "a tender masterpiece," and about which the New York Times proclaimed, "no one
does church sexy like Allen."
His short
stories have appeared in numerous literary journals and have been anthologized
in Miami Noir, Las Vegas Noir, Brown
Sugar, Wanderlust, Making the Hook Up, and Here We Are: an Anthology of South Florida Writers.
His latest
novel, Every Boy Should Have a Man,
which has been called by Booklist
"Imaginative, versatile, and daring," is about, well, boys in a fictive
world who own men as pets.
He holds a
BA in English from the University of Florida and an MFA in creative writing
from Florida International University. He lives and teaches writing in South
Florida.
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