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USA, Of specific Gay interest, Autobiography: arts & entertainment
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John Murray
- Paperback Jun 30, 2020 | 9781473665453 | RRP $26.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook May 2, 2019 | 9781473665477 | RRP $37.99 Buy Now
- e-Book May 2, 2019 | 9781473665460 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
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John Murray
- Paperback Jun 30, 2020 | 9781473665453 | RRP $26.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook May 2, 2019 | 9781473665477 | RRP $37.99 Buy Now
- e-Book May 2, 2019 | 9781473665460 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
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John Murray
- Paperback Jun 30, 2020 | 9781473665453 | RRP $26.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook May 2, 2019 | 9781473665477 | RRP $37.99 Buy Now
- e-Book May 2, 2019 | 9781473665460 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
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A candid, vivid, powerfully resonant memoir about growing up Mormon in Texas from an Academy Award-winning screenwriter and leading spokesperson for LGBTQ rights.
'A magnificent achievement . . . I cannot remember a book where I cried so often. Brave, insightful, unflinching, funny, sad, triumphant . . . everything. And both a warning and a hope for the times to come' STEPHEN FRY
Dustin Lance Black wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for MILK and helped overturn California's anti-gay marriage Proposition 8, but he grew up in a conservative Mormon household outside San Antonio, Texas. His mother, Anne, was raised in rural Louisiana, and contracted polio when she was two years old. She endured brutal surgeries, as well as braces and crutches for life, and was told that she would never have children or a family. Wilfully defying expectations, she found salvation in an unlikely faith, raised three sons, and escaped the abuse and violence of two questionably devised Mormon marriages before finding love and an improbable career in the U.S. civil service.
When Lance came out to his mother at twenty-one, he was already studying the arts instead of going on his Mormon mission. She derided his sexuality as a sinful choice and was terrified for his future. MAMA'S BOY explores what it took to remain a family despite such division -- a journey that stretched from the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court to the woodsheds of East Texas. In the end, the rifts that have split a nation couldn't end this relationship that has defined and inspired their remarkable lives.
MAMA'S BOY is their story. It's a story of the noble quest for a plane higher than politics - one of family, foundations, turmoil, tragedy, elation, and love. It is a story needed now more than ever.
'To outsiders, my mom and I should have been enemies. Our house should have been divided -- North vs South, red vs blue, conservative vs progressive, or however you want to put it. Instead, my mom and I fuelled each other. Her oil lit my lamp, and eventually mine lit hers. The tools I'd learned to wield growing up in her conservative, Christian, southern, military home were the same I'd used to wage battles that had taken me from a broken-down welfare apartment where gunfire sang me to sleep, to the biggest stages in the world, and to the front row of the United States Supreme Court to fight for LGBTQ equality.'
Praise for Mama's Boy: A Memoir
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A magnificent achievement... I cannot remember a book where I cried so often. Brave, insightful, unflinching, funny, sad, triumphant... everything. And both a warning and a hope for the times to come. - STEPHEN FRY
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A beautifully written, utterly compelling account of growing up poor and gay with a thrice married, physically disabled, deeply religious Mormon mother, and the imprint this irrepressible woman made on the character of Dustin Lance Black. Their extraordinary bond left me exhilarated - it actually gave me hope for the future. - JON KRAKAUER, author of INTO THIN AIR
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An incredibly moving book about how love really does have the power to conquer all. Beautifully written and fortifying - Attitude
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