Boys and oil : growing up gay in a fractured land / Taylor Brorby.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, A Division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Edition: First editionDescription: 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781324090861
- 1324090863
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Adult Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | Biography | BRORBY, T. B873 | Available | 33111010983555 | |||||
Not for Loan | Main Library | North Dakota Collection | BRORBY, T. B873 | Not for loan | 33111010899041 | |||||
Adult Book | Main Library | Biography | BRORBY, T. B873 | Checked out | Stain noted. 9/7/22 | 06/07/2024 | 33111010848758 | |||
Adult Book | Northport Library | Biography | BRORBY, T. B873 | Available | 33111009438769 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"I am a child of the American West, a landscape so rich and wide that my culture trembles with terror before its power." So begins Taylor Brorby's Boys and Oil, a haunting, bracingly honest memoir about growing up gay amidst the harshness of rural North Dakota, "a place where there is no safety in a ravaged landscape of mining and fracking."
In visceral prose, Brorby recounts his upbringing in the coalfields; his adolescent infatuation with books; and how he felt intrinsically different from other boys. Now an environmentalist, Brorby uses the destruction of large swathes of the West as a metaphor for the terror he experienced as a youth. From an assault outside a bar in an oil boom town to a furtive romance, and from his awakening as an activist to his arrest at the Dakota Access Pipeline, Boys and Oil provides a startling portrait of an America that persists despite well-intentioned legal protections.
"From a young, gay environmentalist, a searing coming-of-age memoir set against the arid landscape of rural North Dakota, where homosexuality "seems akin to a ticking bomb." "I am a child of the American West, a landscape so rich and wide that my culture trembles with terror before its power." So begins Taylor Brorby's Boys and Oil, a haunting, bracingly honest memoir about growing up gay amidst the harshness of rural North Dakota, "a place where there is no safety in a ravaged landscape of mining and fracking." In visceral prose, Brorby recounts his upbringing in the coalfields; his adolescent infatuation with books; and how he felt intrinsically different from other boys. Now an environmentalist, Brorby uses the destruction of large swathes of the West as a metaphor for the terror he experienced as a youth. From an assault outside a bar in an oil boom town to a furtive romance, and from his awakening as an activist to his arrest at the Dakota Access Pipeline, Boys and Oil provides a startling portrait of an America that persists despite well-intentioned legal protections"-- Provided by publisher.