The Child by Sarah Schulman

The Child by Sarah Schulman

Schulman crafts a piercing investigation into desire, mores, and the law.--Publishers Weekly

An important work of American literature. That this is probably not how the book will be handled, reviewed, shelved, sold and read makes the novel all the more necessary and true.--Lambda Book Report

Sarah Schulman is one our most articulate observers.--The Advocate

In true Schulman form, the book has a gleaming intelligence and chilled anger. It's beautifully blunt and plainspoken.--L.A. Weekly

A thought-provoking story on a controversial subject. . . . To her credit, Schulman forces the reader to question common societal assumptions.--Library Journal

The Child, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, is the eleventh and perhaps most controversial book by acclaimed lesbian writer Sarah Schulman, available for the first time in paperback. This novel explores the parameters of queer teen sexuality against a backdrop of hysteria and sanctioned homophobia, based on the 1997 sexual assault and murder of an eleven-year-old boy by a fifteen-year-old.

Stew is a lonely teen who discovers love on an adult website. But when his older boyfriend is arrested in an Internet pedophilia sting, his proclivities are revealed to his family and friends, to his horror. Devastated by these revelations and left to fend for himself, he ends up committing murder.

Brazen and daring in its themes, The Child is a powerful indictment of sex panic in America, and a plaintive meditation on isolation and desire.

Schulman, Sarah: - Sarah Schulman is the author of more than twenty works of fiction (including The Cosmopolitans, Rat Bohemia, and Maggie Terry), nonfiction (including Stagestruck, Conflict is Not Abuse, and The Gentrification of the Mind), and theater (Carson McCullers, Manic Flight Reaction, and more), and the producer and screenwriter of several feature films (The Owls, Mommy Is Coming, and United in Anger, among others). Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Slate, and many other outlets. She is a Distinguished Professor of Humanities at College of Staten Island, a Fellow at the New York Institute of Humanities, the recipient of multiple fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and was presented in 2018 with Publishing Triangle's Bill Whitehead Award. She is also the cofounder of the MIX New York LGBT Experimental Film and Video Festival, and the co-director of the groundbreaking ACT UP Oral History Project. A lifelong New Yorker, she is a longtime activist for queer rights and female empowerment, and serves on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace.

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ISBN 13	9780786718665
ISBN 10	0786718668
Title	The Child
Author	Sarah Schulman
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Avalon Publishing Group
Year published	2007-05-10
Number of pages	304
Prizes	Commended for Lambda Literary Awards (Women's Fiction) 2007
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.