| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Summary |
"From a young, gay environmentalist, a searing coming-of-age memoir set against the arid landscape of rural North Dakota, where homosexuality "seems akin to a ticking bomb." "I am a child of the American West, a landscape so rich and wide that my culture trembles with terror before its power." So begins Taylor Brorby's Boys and Oil, a haunting, bracingly honest memoir about growing up gay amidst the harshness of rural North Dakota, "a place where there is no safety in a ravaged landscape of mining and fracking." In visceral prose, Brorby recounts his upbringing in the coalfields; his adolescent infatuation with books; and how he felt intrinsically different from other boys. Now an environmentalist, Brorby uses the destruction of large swathes of the West as a metaphor for the terror he experienced as a youth. From an assault outside a bar in an oil boom town to a furtive romance, and from his awakening as an activist to his arrest at the Dakota Access Pipeline, Boys and Oil provides a startling portrait of an America that persists despite well-intentioned legal protections"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Brorby, Taylor.
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Gay men -- North Dakota -- Biography.
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LGBTQ+ people.
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Environmentalists -- North Dakota -- Biography.
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Oil spills -- Environmental aspects -- United States.
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| Genre |
Autobiographies.
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Gay biographies.
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LGBTQ+ biographies.
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Queer biographies.
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LGBTQ+ literature.
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| ISBN |
9781324090861 (hardcover) : $27.95 |
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1324090863 (hardcover) |
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