num_pages: 256
description: By turns funny, romantic, erotic, and sad, this evocative novel brilliantly recreates the landscape of late adolescence, when friendships seem eternal and loves reincarnate. Set in Arkansas but first published in Amsterdam under the title Clicking Beat on the Brink of Nada, Cody quickly won praise from reviewers and readers across Europe and North America and caught the attention of William S. Burroughs and other writers who befriended the young author (Hale began writing the novel when he was sixteen). The first edition of the book was immediately banned in the United Kingdom during Margaret Thatcher's Operation Tiger. Today, Clicking Beat remains current and continues to be unique in both coming of age literature and the gay literary canon.
language: English
title: Clicking Beat on the Brink of Nada
titlecomplete: Clicking Beat on the Brink of Nada
characters: Steven Trottingham "Trotsky" Taylor, Washington Damon Cody
genres: Fiction, M M Romance, Coming Of Age, Queer, LGBT, Gay Fiction, Teen, Young Adult, Romance, Gay
ratings_count: 354
places: Little Rock, Arkansas, Arkansas
publisher: Booksurge Publishing