| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
viii, 406 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Note |
"This is a Borzoi book." |
| Summary |
An Academy Award-winning screenwriter and political activist, Black shares a candid, powerfully resonant memoir about growing up in a military, Mormon household outside San Antonio, Texas. His mother had contracted polio as a small girl, endured leg braces and iron lungs, and was repeatedly told that she could never have children or live a normal life. While Black struggled to come to terms with his sexuality, she remained his source of strength and his guiding light, and years later stood by his side when he helped bring the historic gay marriage case to the U.S. Supreme Court. -- adapted from jacket |
| Contents |
Still water -- Safety's sound -- Our suffering -- A body in motion -- Bedrock -- Grand theft auto -- Can't walk, can't talk -- Bull by the horns -- Hungry devils -- Deliverance -- West of home & east of Eden -- Secret somethings -- Allemande left -- Queen of the ma'ams -- Xmas down -- Hungry jackals -- Spinning yarn -- Milk calls -- Cataclysm -- SCOTUS hiatus -- Virginia roads -- Our Americas -- Mama's boy. |
| Subject |
Black, Dustin Lance -- Childhood and youth.
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Black, Dustin Lance -- Family.
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Gay men -- United States -- Biography.
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Mothers and sons -- United States.
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Screenwriters -- United States -- Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LGBT.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts.
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Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
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Gay men. (OCoLC)fst00939117
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Mothers and sons. (OCoLC)fst01027007
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Biography.
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Autobiographies.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Black, Dustin Lance, author. Mama's boy First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018 9781524733285 (DLC) 2018052749 |
| ISBN |
9781524733278 (hardcover) (alk. paper) |
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152473327X (hardcover) (alk. paper) |
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