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Go The Way Your Blood Beats
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Description: AN Extraordinarily Moving AND Original Memoir OF Growing UP GAY AND Disabled IN 1980s London Shortlisted FOR THE Slightly Foxed BEST Biography Prize 2023 When Emmett de Monterey is eighteen months old a doctor diagnoses him with cerebral palsy. Words too heavy for his twenty - five - year - old artist parents and their happy smiling baby. Growing up in south - east London in the 1980s Emmett is spat at on the street and prayed over at church. At his mainstream school teachers refuse to schedule his classes on the ground floor and he loses a stone from the effort of getting up the stairs. At his sixth form college for disabled students he's told he will be expelled if the rumours are true if he's gay. And then Emmett is chosen for a first - of - its - kind surgery in America which he hopes will 'cure him enable him to walk unaided. He hopes for a miracle: to walk to dance to be able to leave the house when it rains. To have a body that's everyday beautiful to hold hands in the street. To not be gay which feels like another word for loneliness. But the 'miracle doesn't occur and Emmett must reckon with a world which views disabled people as invisible unworthy of desire. He must fight to be seen. Vivid engaging this insightful memoir sheds light on the author's life as a disabled gay man who is often rendered invisible Andrew Mc Millan Guardian Book of the Day A frank and intimate memoir written with an incredible clear - eyed intensity Claire Fuller
Title: Go The Way Your Blood Beats
Author(s): Monterey Emmett De
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Barcode: 9780241995785
Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Date: 3/11/2025
Category: Gay & Lesbian Studies
Description: AN Extraordinarily Moving AND Original Memoir OF Growing UP GAY AND Disabled IN 1980s London Shortlisted FOR THE Slightly Foxed BEST Biography Prize 2023 When Emmett de Monterey is eighteen months old a doctor diagnoses him with cerebral palsy. Words too heavy for his twenty - five - year - old artist parents and their happy smiling baby. Growing up in south - east London in the 1980s Emmett is spat at on the street and prayed over at church. At his mainstream school teachers refuse to schedule his classes on the ground floor and he loses a stone from the effort of getting up the stairs. At his sixth form college for disabled students he's told he will be expelled if the rumours are true if he's gay. And then Emmett is chosen for a first - of - its - kind surgery in America which he hopes will 'cure him enable him to walk unaided. He hopes for a miracle: to walk to dance to be able to leave the house when it rains. To have a body that's everyday beautiful to hold hands in the street. To not be gay which feels like another word for loneliness. But the 'miracle doesn't occur and Emmett must reckon with a world which views disabled people as invisible unworthy of desire. He must fight to be seen. Vivid engaging this insightful memoir sheds light on the author's life as a disabled gay man who is often rendered invisible Andrew Mc Millan Guardian Book of the Day A frank and intimate memoir written with an incredible clear - eyed intensity Claire Fuller
Title: Go The Way Your Blood Beats
Author(s): Monterey Emmett De
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Barcode: 9780241995785
Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Date: 3/11/2025
Category: Gay & Lesbian Studies