Excuse me while I slip into someone more comfortable
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Eric Poole
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: RosettaBooks
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9781948122047; 9780795350801
Subjects: Gay authors; Childhood and youth; Biography
Description: "In the great tradition of David Sedaris, David Rakoff, and Augusten Burroughs, memoirist Eric Poole recounts his quirky childhood years in utterly hilarious and painful detail. In 1977, Eric Poole is a talented high school trumpet player with one working ear, the height-to-weight ratio of a hat rack, a series of annoyingly handsome bullies, and a mother irrationally devoted to Lemon Pledge. But who he wants to be is a star...ANY star. With equal parts imagination, flair, and delusion, Eric proceeds to emulate a series of his favorite celebrities, like Barry Manilow, Halston, Tommy Tune, and Shirley MacLaine, in an effort to become the man he's meant to be--that is, anyone but himself. As he moves through his late teens and early twenties in suburban St. Louis, he casts about for an appropriate outlet for his talents. Will he be a trumpet soloist? A triple-threat actor/singer/dancer? A fashion designer in gritty New York City? Striving to become the son who can finally make his parents proud, Eric begins to suspect that discovering his personal and creative identities can only be accomplished by admitting who he really is. Picking up at the end of his first acclaimed memoir, Where's My Wand?, Poole's journey from self-delusion to acceptance is simultaneously hysterical, heartfelt, and inspiring."--
Table of contents: title: Manilow of the hour; title: Truth or dare; title: These boots were made for stealin'; title: New York state of blind; title: Tune deaf; title: If they could see me now; title: Don't call me Shirley; title: The letter; title: The boy bombeck; title: That boy; title: Who can turn the world on with his wig; title: Free to be you and me.