The Boy Who Went Away
Eli Gottlieb
(Author)
Description
Denny Graubart, child-narrator and "domestic surveillance expert," is having some terrible suspicions about his mother and autistic brother. It's the 1960s, aka the Diagnostic Dark Ages of Autism, and while his mother struggles to keep his brother out of an institution, signs of something more disturbing are beginning to emerge before young Denny's eyes. Battered by his own tragicomic sexual awakening during a long, hot summer, Denny will eventually find his most horrified suspicions about his family confirmed. A powerfully drawn portrait of two brothers locked into an asymmetrical childhood and a family struggling against a weight of medical ignorance, The Boy Who Went Away is "shockingly, electrically alive" (Phillip Lopate). It is also an indispensable bookend to Gottlieb's Best Boy, which recounts the impact of autism on the same family from the other side, many years later, in the voice of a middle-aged autistic man.
Product Details
Price
$14.95
$13.90
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Publish Date
September 07, 2015
Pages
256
Dimensions
5.5 X 0.63 X 8.44 inches | 0.47 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781631490927
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Eli Gottlieb's New York Times Notable Book, The Boy Who Went Away, won the Rome Prize and the 1998 McKitterick Prize from the British Society of Authors. His second novel, Now You See Him, has been translated into eleven languages. He lives in New York City.www.eligottlieb.com