num_pages: 432
description: Walter McCloud was constantly eclipsed by those around him - his beautiful, talented friends, his flamboyant relatives, his golden-boy brother, Daniel. He was always the outsider, never the star. But the summer of 1972 was a turning point in the life of fifteen-year-old Walter. It was the time when he realized that his great passion for dance would never be matched by his talent; the time when he discovered the funny agony of first love' and the time when he watched his brother declining into a cruel, untimely death.It is only when, twenty-four years later, Walter returns to fight for the survival of his childhood Eden, his family's lakeside summer home, that he finally discovers a way to reconcile himself to the past in a way that gives hope for the future.
language: English
title: The Short History of a Prince
titlecomplete: The Short History of a Prince
genres: Realistic Fiction, Coming Of Age, Literary Fiction, Novels, LGBT, Drama, Gay, The United States Of America, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 2166
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Shortlist, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Black Swan