Boys and oil : growing up gay in a fractured land
Record details
- ISBN: 1324090863
- ISBN: 9781324090861
- ISBN: 9781324090861
- ISBN: 1324090863
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Physical Description:
pages cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, A Division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2022]
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | "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"-- |
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Subject: | Oil spills Environmental aspects United States Environmentalists North Dakota Biography Gay men North Dakota Biography Brorby, Taylor |
Available copies
- 3 of 3 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Terryville Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Terryville Public Library | B BRORBY (Text) | 34028153271565 | Adult Biography | Available | - |