Boy Friends A Memoir Of Joy Grief And Male Friendship

Binding: Paperback
Description: An intimate and original memoir of love grief and male friendship by one of Scotland's brightest young talents. As perfect a portrait of friendship as I've ever read. Stephen FRY Lucid lyrical loaded A love letter to friendship. Jackie KAY A lovely book: bright and heartfelt funny and refreshing. Andrew O Hagan A beautiful moving life - affirming book. IAN Rankin Friendships might just be the greatest love affairs of our lives In 2018 poet and author Michael Pedersen lost a cherished friend Scott Hutchison soon after their collective voyage into the landscape of the Scottish Highlands. Just weeks later Michael began to write to him. As he confronts the bewildering process of grief what starts as a love letter to one magical coruscating human soon becomes a paean to all the gorgeous male friendships that have transformed his life. Boy Friends sees Pedersen illuminate these companions with a poet's eye a comedian's timing and a lover's care. Observer Written with enough electricity that it seems to jolt off the page Boy Friends opens up conversations about the brunt of suicide the circumstances of certain types of Scottish masculinity and where friendships fit into that. Sunday Times
Title: Boy Friends A Memoir Of Joy Grief And Male Friendship
Author(s): Pedersen Michael
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Barcode: 9780571360062
Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Date: 7/11/2023
Category: Family & Relationships