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Mean boys : a personal history
Published 2024 by Bloomsbury Publishing, New York
ISBN 9781635577945
Bib Id 1265128
Copyright 2024
Description xii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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9781635577945 (hardcover) $29.00
1635577942
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B Mak
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Mean boys : a personal history
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2024 by Bloomsbury Publishing, New York :
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©2024
Description
xii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-264).
Contents
Edgelords -- My father, the minister -- Identify despite itself -- In Arcadia ego -- The rules to live by -- Anti-fashion -- California gothic -- Mean boys.
Summary
"In this pyrotechnic memoir-in-essays, Mak ranges widely over our landscape of paranoia, crisis, and frenetic, clickable consumption. He grants readers an inside pass to the spaces where culture was made and unmade over the past decade, from the antiseptic glare of white-walled galleries to the darkest corners of Berlin techno clubs. As the gay son of an evangelical minister, Mak fled to those spaces, hoping to join a global, influential elite. But when calamity struck, it forced Mak to confront the costs of mistaking status for belonging. Fusing personal essay and cultural critique, Mean Boys investigates exile and return, transgression and forgiveness, and the value of faith, empathy, and friendship in a world designed to make us want what is bad for us" --
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Autobiographies.
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