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When Everything Feels Like the Movies
Raziel Reid
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Description for When Everything Feels Like the Movies
Paperback. Beautiful, screwed-up, queer - Jude is a young man determined to blow kisses to bigots and defy a lifetime of neglect through glamour. Jude will wear whatever he wants, sleep with whomever he likes and live his life like he's the star of the show. This is his brilliant, blazing story. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: YFB; YXS. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 199 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 168.
Everyone wanted to break me. But stars aren't broken, they explode. And I was the ultimate supernova. My name was Jude. They called me Judy. I was beautiful either way. School was basically a movie set. We were all just playing our parts. The Crew, the Extras, the Movie Stars. No one was ever real . . . especially me. I didn't fit any category. All the girls watched me - I could walk so much better than them in heels, and my make-up was always flawless. ... Read more
Everyone wanted to break me. But stars aren't broken, they explode. And I was the ultimate supernova. My name was Jude. They called me Judy. I was beautiful either way. School was basically a movie set. We were all just playing our parts. The Crew, the Extras, the Movie Stars. No one was ever real . . . especially me. I didn't fit any category. All the girls watched me - I could walk so much better than them in heels, and my make-up was always flawless. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
168g
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472151278
SKU
V9781472151278
Shipping Time
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99-10
About Raziel Reid
Raziel Reid's debut novel When Everything Feels like the Movies was featured on Canada Reads 2015 defended by Elaine Lui of LaineyGossip.com. Raziel's screen adaptation of the book has been optioned by Random Bench Productions. He currently lives in Vancouver where he teaches Creative Writing for Young Adults at the University of British Columbia, and is working on his next ... Read more
Reviews for When Everything Feels Like the Movies
Brilliant ... It's sharp, uncannily accurate and dotted with touching moments that utterly wring you out ... Unnerving yes, but it also reveals just how talented Reid is at capturing so fully the pain of growing up and discovering who you are ... It'll be hard to forget in a hurry.
Belfast Telegraph
Brave, powerful, and can hopefully ... Read more
Belfast Telegraph
Brave, powerful, and can hopefully ... Read more