| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Prologue : sea -- Soil -- Roots -- Sprout -- Shoot -- Blade -- Inflorescence -- Floret -- Coda : caprock. |
| Summary |
"From a young, gay environmentalist, a searing coming-of-age memoir set against the arid landscape of rural North Dakota, where homosexuality "seems akin to a ticking bomb." "I am a child of the American West, a landscape so rich and wide that my culture trembles with terror before its power." So begins Taylor Brorby's Boys and Oil, a haunting, bracingly honest memoir about growing up gay amidst the harshness of rural North Dakota, "a place where there is no safety in a ravaged landscape of mining and fracking." In visceral prose, Brorby recounts his upbringing in the coalfields; his adolescent infatuation with books; and how he felt intrinsically different from other boys. Now an environmentalist, Brorby uses the destruction of large swathes of the West as a metaphor for the terror he experienced as a youth. From an assault outside a bar in an oil boom town to a furtive romance, and from his awakening as an activist to his arrest at the Dakota Access Pipeline, Boys and Oil provides a startling portrait of an America that persists despite well-intentioned legal protections."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Brorby, Taylor.
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Gay men -- North Dakota -- Biography.
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Environmentalists -- North Dakota -- Biography.
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Oil spills -- Environmental aspects -- United States.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
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Environmentalists. (OCoLC)fst00913554
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Gay men. (OCoLC)fst00939117
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Oil spills -- Environmental aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01044784
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North Dakota. (OCoLC)fst01205582
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Autobiographies.
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| ISBN |
9781324090861 (hardcover) |
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1324090863 (hardcover) |
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9781324090878 (epub) |
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