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Book Title: Dream Boy The author of the book: Jim Grimsley Edition: Touchstone The size of the: 966 KB City - Country: No data Date of issue: January 30th 1997 ISBN: 0684829924 ISBN 13: 9780684829920 Language: English Format files: PDF Loaded: 1141 times Reader ratings: 4.1 |
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Powerful silent imagery.....
Grimsley uses the third person present to tell us this story. So even though we are getting Nathan's point of view, a distance is still created between us and him and him and his world. This distance mirrors the same distance that Nathan needs to be able to survive what he has been through. So with this writing tool Grimsley puts us in the picture by making us feel the distance, the silence, the invisibility, the loneliness, the wariness. The distrust Nathan feels is even transmitted in our view of Roy. We know Roy through Nathan, and like Nathan I wanted the relationship, Roy, to be something good but like Nathan I could not fully trust that he would not hurt him either.
Again Grimsley uses his words to create the surreal feel of the last third of the book. This surreal feeling left me unsure what to think, what to believe. He leaves the ending open to different interpretations. My preferred take is the one I'm going to try and take with me. (view spoiler)[ what if what happened after Burke found them was a dream. Maybe losing Roy at that moment brought back the memories Nathan strove so hard to supress and his Dad and Burke got all mixed up in a kind of nightmare. After all he always saw Burke as a violent antagonist. So his going back would be a kind of a win as he could have decide to end it there. Roy making a choice at the end between church-girl and Nathan also opens up possibilities. I don't know where they go from here everything is possible. (hide spoiler)]
It's not the kind of story which makes you happy, because it touches ugly things, this notwithstanding I found it excellently crafted. I admire how Grimsley gave a silent voice to Nathan which I heard loud and clear. All in such a short amount of pages.
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Jim received the Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Writers Award for his body of work in 1997, and has twice been a finalist for the Rome Prize Fellowship in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2003-2004). In 2005 he won an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
He served as playwright in residence at About Face Theatre in Chicago under a National Theatre Artist Residency Program grant from Theate Communications Group/Pew Charitable Trust (1999-2004); he has been playwright in residence at 7Stages Theatre in Atlanta since 1986. In 1987 he received the George Oppenheimer/Newsday Award for Best New American Playwright for Mr. Universe. His collection of plays, Mr. Universe and Other Plays,was published by Algonquin Books in 1998, and was a Lambda finalist for drama.
His books have been translated into German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Hebrew, and Japanese.
Reviews of the Dream Boy

DANIEL
A book that leaves nothing behind, no feelings, no thoughts.

OLIVIA
The book is a masterpiece that makes a richer soul, speech, and wider horizon.

TEDDY
This book will make you shudder, infiltrate, and change your mind about this crazy world.

IMOGEN
When you regret the book ends!
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A hard, shocking, but extremely useful book that makes you think!
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