Funny Boy
by Selvadurai, Shyam
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fine+
- ISBN 10
- 0771079508
- ISBN 13
- 9780771079504
- Seller
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Vars, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
McClelland & Stewart. Fine+. 1994. Paperback. 0771079508 . A Fine Trade Paperback, with a French Flap. This book looks unread but does have some moderate shelf wear. "In the world of his large family, affluent Tamils living in the capital of Sri Lanka, Arjie is an oddity - a "funny boy" - who likes dressing as a girl. Through his eyes, the reader watches him come to terms with his homosexuality and with the violent racism of the society in which he lives." ; 8.35 X 5.59 X 1.18 inches; 316 pages .
Synopsis
Funny Boy is a first-person novel by Canadian author Shyam Selvadurai. First published by McClelland and Stewart in September 1994, the novel won the Lambda Literary Award for gay male fiction and the Books in Canada First Novel Award. Set in Sri Lanka where Selvadurai grew up, Funny Boy is constructed in the form of six poignant stories about a boy coming to age within an wealthy Tamil family in Colombo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bytown Bookery (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19946
- Title
- Funny Boy
- Author
- Selvadurai, Shyam
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine+
- ISBN 10
- 0771079508
- ISBN 13
- 9780771079504
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- 0771079508, Sri Lanka, Coming Of Age
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