Ponyboy : a novel /
Ponyboy unravels in his Paris apartment. Cut to the bar. Cut to the back room. Ponyboy is strung out and struggling. He is falling into the widening chasm between who he is, trans, electrically so, and the blank canvas his girlfriend, Baby, wants him to be. Cut to Berlin. Ponyboy sinks deeper into d...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
W. W. Norton & Company,
[2023].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | Ponyboy unravels in his Paris apartment. Cut to the bar. Cut to the back room. Ponyboy is strung out and struggling. He is falling into the widening chasm between who he is, trans, electrically so, and the blank canvas his girlfriend, Baby, wants him to be. Cut to Berlin. Ponyboy sinks deeper into drugs and falls for Gabriel, all the while pursued by a photographer hungry for the next hot thing. As his relationships crumble, he overdoses. Cut to open sky. In a rehab back home in Iowa, Ponyboy is his mother's son. In precise atmospheric prose, Eliot Duncan's debut novel lays bare the innate splendor, joy and ache of becoming one's self. |
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| Physical Description: | 232 pages ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781324051220 1324051221 |