Totempole
By: Sanford Friedman ; afterword by Peter Cameron
Series: New York Review Books classics
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 419
ISBN-13: 9781590177617
Copyright date: 1961
Subjects: Gay men; Fiction
Description: "Totempole is Sanford Friedman's radical coming-of-age novel, featuring Stephen Wolfe, a young Jewish boy growing up in New York City and its environs during the Depression and war years. In eight discrete chapters, which trace Stephen's evolution from a two-year-old boy to a twenty-two-year-old man, Friedman describes with psychological acuity and great empathy Stephen's intellectual, moral, and sexual maturation. Taught to abhor his body for the sake of his soul, Stephen finds salvation in the eventual unification of the two, the recognition that body and soul should not be partitioned but treated as one being, one complete man"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.