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Every Boy Should Have a Man

✍ Scribed by Allen, Preston L

Book ID
110434349
Publisher
Akashic
Year
2013
Tongue
English
Weight
1 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781617751578

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✦ Synopsis

"James Baldwin meets Aldous Huxley" in this "highly original" speculative fable (Chicago Tribune).

Nominated for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Fiction

In a post-human world, creatures called oafs keep humanlike "mans" as beloved pets. One day, a poor boy oaf brings home a man, whom he hides under his bed in the hopes his parents won't find out . . .

"Much like Pierre Boulle's 1963 novel Planet of the Apes, this novel is a sardonic parable on the nature and destiny of the species. A nimble fable whose bold narrative experiment is elevated by its near-biblical language and affectionate embrace of our inherent flaws." β€”Kirkus Reviews

"An imaginative and honest epic, weaving together biblical stories, fantasy, poetry, and fairy tales with a touch of realism. . . . Allen asks us to question the assumptions, -isms, and contradictions of the modern world. . . . Recalling the humanitarian...

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