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Winner of the Adam Foundation Prize Erica is 17 and in her last year of high school. Donny is 42 and everywhere - in her yoga class, at German Club, in her parents' spare room . . . The story of a young woman who finds herself subject to the gravitational field of a charismatic man, The Boyfriend is a cautionary tale about blindly accepting traditional 'love' narratives. This clear-eyed, dismaying and often hilarious examination of sexual desire, trauma and growth is a remarkable debut and a perfect novel for our time.
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The Boyfriend, Laura Southgate
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- Released
- 2020
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- Title
- The Boyfriend
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Laura Southgate
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Released
- 2020
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 272
- ISBN10
- 0349726302
- ISBN13
- 9780349726304
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes
- Rating
- 2.55 out of 5
- Description
- Winner of the Adam Foundation Prize Erica is 17 and in her last year of high school. Donny is 42 and everywhere - in her yoga class, at German Club, in her parents' spare room . . . The story of a young woman who finds herself subject to the gravitational field of a charismatic man, The Boyfriend is a cautionary tale about blindly accepting traditional 'love' narratives. This clear-eyed, dismaying and often hilarious examination of sexual desire, trauma and growth is a remarkable debut and a perfect novel for our time.