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It's rare for a book written by a teenager to be published for an adult audience, but the 10 stories collected here showcase an author who, despite his age (he wrote some of the stories at 16), has a genuinely authoritative voice. Nowhere is this more evident than in the title story, which portrays the sexual abuse of a child by his mother's former lover in horrifying, clinical detail. Although LeRoy's youth is occasionally apparent both in his choice of big themes and in the lack of complexity with which he treats them, the raw power of his prose overcomes these intimations of immaturity. His refusal to sentimentalize the abuse and criminality that his characters suffer and inflict illuminates a disturbing world about which LeRoy clearly knows too much. What's truly remarkable about these stories is the way they reflect one teenager's frightening vision of the human heart as being both fundamentally deceitful and awash in depraved indifference toward the emotional well-being of children. John Green
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The stories collected in this volume by cult writer LeRoy, whose debut novel Sarah was published to critical acclaim, constitute a picaresque memoir set mainly in the urban underbelly of San Francisco. The author's challenge here is to extract something fresh from a terrain so familiar that it is a well-established microgenre, yet it's difficult to assess how well LeRoy succeeds, since one's judgment is inevitably skewed by the presentation of these stories as autobiographical. On the other hand, given how well LeRoy fulfils the ground rules of his narrative, its documentary value might be beside the point. This is the kind of work that gets described as "raw" and "honest," and while it certainly occupies a niche in the literary market, it's hard to imagine that this particular example is essential in any but the most comprehensive collections. Philip Santo, Metropolitan Museum of Art Lib., New York
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Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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This is a heartbreaking, brutally honest portrait of childhood that may be the most gut-wrenching of its type since Jean Genet first took up his pen or Arthur Rimbaud spent his season in hell. True or not, the stories that comprise J. T. Leroy's "The Heart is Deceitful Above All
Things" are convincing enough to lead even the most reluctant reader into accepting them as a legitimate vision of family and abuse in
America. All the usual suspects are here--the teenage mother with the substance abuse problem, who has turned to prostitution and is
barely more than a child herself; the string of redneck boyfriends, who drive trucks or live in trailers, and who are just as capable of
raping little boys as making love to Baby Doll girls; and the hell-fire and brimstone spouting preacher, who is the scourge of God when it
comes to disciplining defenseless children, including his grandson Jeremiah, the Bible-named narrator of the stories and presumed autobiographical stand-in for Leroy--but Leroy keeps them fresh. His writing is spare and convincingly adolescent, all the while it is clearly guided by an assured hand. The only problem is that, for this reader at least, the pace is so relentlessly downbeat that, in spite of welcome flashes of humor, I was exhausted three-fourths of the way into the book and found the last two stories before "Natoma Street" to be overkill. The climax of the novel (for it is so much more a novel than a collection of stories)
Things" are convincing enough to lead even the most reluctant reader into accepting them as a legitimate vision of family and abuse in
America. All the usual suspects are here--the teenage mother with the substance abuse problem, who has turned to prostitution and is
barely more than a child herself; the string of redneck boyfriends, who drive trucks or live in trailers, and who are just as capable of
raping little boys as making love to Baby Doll girls; and the hell-fire and brimstone spouting preacher, who is the scourge of God when it
comes to disciplining defenseless children, including his grandson Jeremiah, the Bible-named narrator of the stories and presumed autobiographical stand-in for Leroy--but Leroy keeps them fresh. His writing is spare and convincingly adolescent, all the while it is clearly guided by an assured hand. The only problem is that, for this reader at least, the pace is so relentlessly downbeat that, in spite of welcome flashes of humor, I was exhausted three-fourths of the way into the book and found the last two stories before "Natoma Street" to be overkill. The climax of the novel (for it is so much more a novel than a collection of stories)
occurs in "Coal," in which we learn something of the horrors of Sarah's upbringing and can even forgive her, up to point, for the horrors
she has in turn inflicted upon her son. I haven't read Leroy's "Sarah," which I understand is to be made into a movie. But it will now be as
hard not to read that book as it would be for me to avert my eyes from a train wreck. Paul Golding's "The Abomination" and Patrick
McCabe's "Breakfast on Pluto" treat similar themes and are worthy reads in their own right, but "The Heart is Deceitful Above All
Things" comes closer to approximating what hell must be like for an abused child. If this sort of thing is truly going on anywhere in
America, God help us all.
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19. Februar 2006
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I approached this volume of stories desiring not to be swayed by the current tides of public condemnation, which shouldn't really matter in terms of fiction anyway. Nevertheless, I can honestly say that it isn't importnat who wrote this book. Leroy or Albert, it's still a stinker, and a grand stinker at that. Perhaps now the dialogue should turn toward why so many were willing to praise this book in the first place, because the story, writing, and talent behind these stories is as transparent and meaningful and unique as cotton candy.
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you don't exist!
11. Januar 2006
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What an incredible disappointment to see such personally revealing writing turn out to be a scandal. I know people who have been personally affected by J T Leroy's writing and have "corresponded" with someone, who we now know, does not even exist. I don't feel that the hoax is brilliant in any way.
I have a lot of people reaching out to me because of Go Ask Ogre and they have confided very personal things to me by way of land mail and email. My book has only been out for 6 months so I can't even imagine how many people have reached out to J T Leroy. I think it's a very messed up thing. I have no respect for liars, even crafty ones.
I have a lot of people reaching out to me because of Go Ask Ogre and they have confided very personal things to me by way of land mail and email. My book has only been out for 6 months so I can't even imagine how many people have reached out to J T Leroy. I think it's a very messed up thing. I have no respect for liars, even crafty ones.
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To Mrs. LA, aka JT
11. Januar 2006
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Your own agent summed it up best: "To present yourself as a person who is dying of AIDS in a culture which has lost so many writers and voices of great meaning, to take advantage of that sympathy and empathy, is the most unfortunate part of all of this," Mr. Silverberg said. "A lot of people believed they were supporting not only a good and innovative and adventurous voice, but that we were supporting a person."
No matter what you do from this point forward, no matter how good or not, no one will take you seriously. By treating your fans like tools your creative power is now officially negated.
No matter what you do from this point forward, no matter how good or not, no one will take you seriously. By treating your fans like tools your creative power is now officially negated.
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