Billy Brazil
Subtitle: a novella
By: Emilio DeGrazia.
Series: Minnesota voices project ;; no. 50
Publisher: New Rivers Press; Distributed by Talman Co.
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Minneapolis, MN; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Schizophrenics -- Fiction; Interpersonal relations -- Fiction; Family -- Fiction
Description: This is the tragic and unforgettable tale of English professor Matthew Holmay and his student Billy Brand, a diagnosed schizophrenic. As their relationship develops, and grows to include Holmay's nine-year-old daughter Evelyn, it threatens to destroy all of the professor's long-fostered assumptions - about literature, parenting, and love. Set in a fictional Midwestern college town, Billy Brazil is a powerful story of human relationships gone awry.