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Who Wrote the Book of Love?

Book ID
126950290
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
2005
Tongue
English
Weight
1 MB
Category
Standards
City
Chicago
ISBN
0226757005

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✦ Synopsis

Who Wrote the Book of Love? is acclaimed novelist Lee Siegel's comedic chronicle of the sexual life of an American boy in Southern California in the 1950s. Starting at the beginning of the decade, in the year that Stalin announced that the Soviet Union had developed an atomic bomb, the book opens with a child's first memory of himself. Closing at the end of the decade, when Pat Boone's guide to dating, 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty, topped the bestseller list, the book culminates just moments before the boy experiences for the first time what he had learned from a book read to him by his mother was. Read more...

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