When Everything Feels Like the Movies
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When Everything Feels Like the Movies by Raziel Reid
Beautiful, screwed-up, queer - Jude is a young man determined to blow kisses to bigots and defy a lifetime of neglect through glamour. Jude will wear whatever he wants, sleep with whomever he likes and live his life like he's the star of the show. This is his brilliant, blazing story.
Raunchy, riotous, and real, this book is a total breath of fresh airHilarious and original, Jude is my new bae. A triumph * Juno Dawson, author of Under My Skin and This Book Is Gay *
Everyone is going to have an opinion on [this] ... An uncompromising and often uncomfortable read, but also very compulsive and funny * the Bookseller, Ones to Watch *
Brave and caustic . . . After winning Canada's Governor General's Award for children's literature, Reid's novel was the subject of a petition protesting its 'vulgar' content. Just another example of the ugly prejudice it so affectingly indicts * Independent *
An important novel, about what can happen when you inspire hatred because you don't fit into any supposed 'normal' category . . . a raw and original book * Telegraph, Best YA of 2016 *
A young adult novel with bite * Grazia *
Brave, powerful, and can hopefully go some way toward helping young readers understand gender and sexuality * Attitude *
Brilliant ... It's sharp, uncannily accurate and dotted with touching moments that utterly wring you out ... Unnerving yes, but it also reveals just how talented Reid is at capturing so fully the pain of growing up and discovering who you are ... It'll be hard to forget in a hurry. * Belfast Telegraph *
Everyone is going to have an opinion on [this] ... An uncompromising and often uncomfortable read, but also very compulsive and funny * the Bookseller, Ones to Watch *
Brave and caustic . . . After winning Canada's Governor General's Award for children's literature, Reid's novel was the subject of a petition protesting its 'vulgar' content. Just another example of the ugly prejudice it so affectingly indicts * Independent *
An important novel, about what can happen when you inspire hatred because you don't fit into any supposed 'normal' category . . . a raw and original book * Telegraph, Best YA of 2016 *
A young adult novel with bite * Grazia *
Brave, powerful, and can hopefully go some way toward helping young readers understand gender and sexuality * Attitude *
Brilliant ... It's sharp, uncannily accurate and dotted with touching moments that utterly wring you out ... Unnerving yes, but it also reveals just how talented Reid is at capturing so fully the pain of growing up and discovering who you are ... It'll be hard to forget in a hurry. * Belfast Telegraph *
Raziel Reid's debut novel When Everything Feels like the Movies was featured on Canada Reads 2015 defended by Elaine Lui of LaineyGossip.com. Raziel's screen adaptation of the book has been optioned by Random Bench Productions. He currently lives in Vancouver where he teaches Creative Writing for Young Adults at the University of British Columbia, and is working on his next book.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781472151278 |
| ISBN 10 | 1472151275 |
| Title | When Everything Feels Like the Movies |
| Author | Raziel Reid |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2016-08-04 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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