Guns and Boyhood in America: A Memoir of Growing Up in the 50s

by Jonathan Holden

Book Overview

In this honest and compelling collection of autobiographical essays, poet Jonathan Holden writes about sex, baseball, and summer camp; about parents who keep their distance; about the mistakes of adolescence; and about the national romance with guns. Most of all, however, he writes about the realities of having a twin brother who is gay and the excruciating pains he took to avoid being mistaken "for a fairy." Illustrating his points with his own poems,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472066439
• ISBN13: 9780472066438
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 7.9"