Blackbird
By: Larry Duplechan
Edition: Second Arsenal Pulp Press edition.
Series: Little sister's classics; Little sister's classics
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Vancouver
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781551526225
Subjects: African American gay men; Young gay men; Fiction
Description: First Published in 1986, Blackbird is a funny, moving, coming-of-age novel about growing up black and gay in America. The lead character, Johnnie Ray Rousseau, is a high school student upset over losing the lead role in the school staging of Romeo and Juliet. As if that weren't enough, his best friend has been beaten badly by his father, and his girlfriend is pressuring him to have sex for the first time. All the while, he's intrigued by Marshall MacNeil, whom he meets at an audition and is surely the sexiest man to walk God's green earth-at least according to Johnnie Ray. This novel of adolescent awakening is as fresh and heartfelt as it was when first published.