| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
225 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
A biographical fantasia, White's latest imagines the final days of the poet and novelist Stephen Crane (The Red Badge of Courage), who died of TB at age 28 in 1900. At the same time, White also imagines and writes The Painted Boy, a work that he has Crane say he began in 1895, but burned after warnings from a friend. Crane dictates a fresh start on the story to his common-law wife, Cora Stewart-Taylor. Interspersed within White's impressionistic account of Crane's life, The Painted Boy tells the tale of Elliott, a ganymede butt-boy buggaree. Once a farm boy used by his widowed father and elder brothers like a girl, Elliott escapes to New York and begins a new life as a street hustler. |
| Subject |
Male prostitutes -- Fiction.
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Husbands -- Fiction.
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Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
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United States -- History -- 1865-1898 -- Fiction.
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Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900 -- Fiction.
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Crane, Cora, 1865 or 1866-1910 -- Fiction.
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Sussex (England) -- Fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780060852252 |
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0060852259 |
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