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      Blackbird

      by Larry Duplechan
      Published
      Aug 1987
      Main Genre
      General Fiction General Fiction
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      182
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      First published by St. Martin's in 1986, Blackbird is a funny, moving, gay coming-of-age novel about growing up black and gay in Southern California. The lead character, Johnnie Ray Rousseau, is a high school student upset at losing the lead role in the school staging of Romeo and Juliet; if that weren't enough, his best friend has been beaten badly by his father, and his girlfriend is pressuring him to have sex for the first time. All the while, he's intrigued by Marshall MacNeill, a fellow drama class member who's surely the sexiest man to walk God's green earth—at least according to Johnnie Ray. This novel of adolescent awakening is as fresh and heartfelt as it was when first published. Features an introduction by Michael Nava.

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      General Fiction

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      LGBTQ

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      First Edition Aug 1987 St. Martin's ISBN13 9780312009984 ISBN10 0312009984
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      May 2006 Arsenal Pulp Press ISBN13 9781551522029 ISBN10 1551522020
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      May 2015 Arsenal Pulp Press ISBN13 9781551526225 ISBN10 1551526220
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      Jan 1986 St. Martin's ISBN13 9780312083403 ISBN10 0312083408
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      May 2006 Arsenal Pulp Press, Limited ISBN13 9781551522678 ISBN10 1551522675
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      May 2006 Arsenal Pulp Press ISBN10 B004ASONFQ
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      Jul 2010 ReadHowYouWant ISBN13 9781458775870 ISBN10 1458775879
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