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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/826648832 Title: King of angels : a novel about the genesis of identity and belief Author: Perry Brass Publisher: Bronx, NY : Belhue Press, ©2012. ISBN/ISSN: 9781892149145 1892149141 OCLC:826648832

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King of angels : a novel about the genesis of identity and belief

Author:	Perry Brass
Publisher:	Bronx, NY : Belhue Press, ©2012.
Edition/Format:	Print book : Fiction : English : 1st ed, 2nd ptg
Summary:	1963. John F. Kennedy is president. Civl rights is catching fire, as another community -- of bachelor men -- is emerging as one to be despised or acknowelged. Ann twevl-year-old Benjamin Rotheberg who lives in a marshy suburb of Savannah, Georgia, with "the most ravishing name in the world," the Isle of Hope, with his mother Caroline, a classically beautiful Southern WASP and his magnetic father Robby, a smark dark Read more...
Rating:	based on 1 rating(s) 1 with a review
Subjects	Gay youth -- Fiction. Nineteen sixties -- Fiction. Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Fiction. View all subjects
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Genre/Form:	Fiction
Material Type:	Fiction
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Perry Brass Find more information about:
ISBN:	9781892149145 1892149141
OCLC Number:	826648832
Awards:	Commended for Triangle Awards (Lgbt Fiction) 2013 Commended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (Young Adult Fiction) 2012
Description:	[viii], 360, [10] pages ; 22 cm
Responsibility:	Perry Brass.

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1963. John F. Kennedy is president. Civl rights is catching fire, as another community -- of bachelor men -- is emerging as one to be despised or acknowelged. Ann twevl-year-old Benjamin Rotheberg who lives in a marshy suburb of Savannah, Georgia, with "the most ravishing name in the world," the Isle of Hope, with his mother Caroline, a classically beautiful Southern WASP and his magnetic father Robby, a smark dark Sephardic-Jewish salemsan, is trying to figure out who he is ... Benjamin must change idetities from beign a smart, precocious self-aware kid to masquerading and passing as a regular guy from growing into a sexually curious (and possibly gay) young man to expereince a fragile adolescent innocence and attraction to a pretty girl. King of Angels is about many communties coming together in an explosive time -- Southern Jews, African-Americans, Southern Catholics, an emerging gay one, and the secret underground world of boys, their crushes and conflicts, their attachments and hates. It is also about the seductive attractions of self knowledge and the men and women who open our hearts to it, amidst the struggles of the soul itself to bloom in life and even after death. This is Perry Brass's most stirring and emotionally charged novel, set in the hunting coastal South. -- Publisher's description.

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by perrybrass (WorldCat user published 2013-04-28) Excellent

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“I laughed and I cried but most of all I thought and I remembered how it was growing up in one of the most turbulent periods of American history when communities tried to come together. Accepting ourselves is part of it all and Perry Brass helps us with that in his brilliant new book. Now back to read it all over again.” Reviews by Amos Lassen, March 26, 2012 (reviewsbyamoslassen.com)

“King of Angels might be compared to Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, substituting the turbulent 1960s with Lee’s depression-era setting and replacing Catholic-Jewish antagonism and homophobia for the race relations that drive To Kill a Mockingbird . . . By making the narrator of King of Angels a slightly older gay boy, Brass introduces a twist to the Southern coming of age story.” Lambda Literary Foundation Newsletter, June 14, 2012.

“Brass' rich descriptions verge on poetic, they remain specific to emotions and action . . . [this] allegory, albeit written in an almost flat syntax, deftly portrays the voice of an awkward teenage narrator. A pivotal tragedy in King of Angels serves as symbolic, surprising and inevitable.” Bay Area Reporter, June 14, 2012.

The early ‘60s “Mad Men” era were turbulent: things were shooting out of the closet at lightning velocity. Men were sexual animals, but women were supposed to stay moms and wives. Playboy hit the newsstands. Sexually-rumored John F. Kennedy was president. The Beatles arrived in the U.S.. There was a dark side: the Ku Klux Klan, racial violence, razor-edged homophobia lurking behind the Playboy lifestyle. You were either a player or a Los Vegas comedian’s fag joke—and 12-year-old Benjamin Rothberg, growing up in Isle of Hope, Georgia, in the marshes outside Savannah, realizes this fast. Child of a mixed marriage between a beautiful blonde Southern-WASP mother and a passionate New York-Jewish father, Benjy will soon be plunged into the sexual underground of boys at Holy Nativity Military Academy, a Catholic school in Savannah run by an order of monks with secrets of their own: alcoholism, pedophilia, and whispered doubts about their faith and calling. The monks are compassionate, racially progressive, and dedicated to educating boys; they are also ruthless when they need to be—and determined to keeping the school going, even after the death of a young handsome Puerto Rican student has been linked to a “closer than normal” relationship with an upperclassman football player.

Benjamin Rothberg finds himself in the middle of all this as he tries to sort out his own identity and discovers a connection with an older “out” Jewish teen trying to survive in Savannah’s queer sexual underground, as a genuine gay community comes out of the darkest shadows.

King of Angels was named a finalist for a prestigious Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction, given by the Ferro-Grumley Foundation and the Publishing Triangle, 2013.

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