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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this. I read the compilation of Cruse's Wendel comic strips, which was also wonderful, but this was simply amazing. At first I was a little worried that the characters seemed like stock, generic Civil Rights-era Southern figures, but as the story progresses Cruse fleshes them out and makes t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49965240">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i kept hearing about this book as one of the inspirations for Alison Bechdel to write <em>Fun Home</em>, so i had to get me a copy.  not easy.  basically out of print.  <br/><br/>the illustrations don't instantly appeal to me.  although you become used to them as time progresses.  the story reminds me of <em>M...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71242627">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm re-reading this since I'm teaching it.  It's fun to teach a graphic novel since the students are so attuned to images.  This book is very rich with a lot of subplots.  It takes place during the Civil Rights Movement in the South and has a mix of characters, black and white, straight and gay.  It...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28367676">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has everything! It takes place mostly in the 60s during the Civil Rights movement, and the main character/narrator is also realizing he's gay, so it's got all the glorious ambiguity and unanswerable doubts of those two themes, race and sexuality. It's basically a meditation on what it mean...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38880719">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[a terrific and moving account of a young gay man growing up in the south during the civil rights movement.  it felt timely to be reading this right now--tony kushner makes the point powerfully in the intro, so i'm going to quote a long passage:<br/><br/><blockquote>It articulates a crying need for solidarity,...</blockquote><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50456412">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fantastic graphic novel, well worth the re-read.  The constant flow of events made me doubt it was even partly fictional.  There are so many tiny moments and details packed into every corner that make it feel a little too disjointed to be made-up.  In the acknowledgements, Cruse mentions it was he...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43066422">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Simply one of the best books I have read in a long time -- an example of how amazing graphic novels CAN be when they try. This is the story of Toland, a young white man coming of age in the deep South at the dawning of the civil rights movement -- and trying to come to terms with his homosexuality. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43056268">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow, this was a really poignant story about prejudices, politics, and acceptance. I loved how the fictional story paralleled the experiences of the author and others, as well as many key moments in the civil rights movement of the Kennedy era. Both shocking and familiar, heartwarming and bleak, this...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70676387">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've wanted to read Howard Cruse's book since high school and just now got around to it. The art is really a marvel, highly reminiscent of between-the-wars lithograph style in the Art Students League and the like, with soft, rounded bodies and delicate stippling to provide shading. It's very unusual...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22861800">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was an interesting story, and neat to hear about the events during the Civil Rights movement from a different perspective.  I kind of wish that it had been an autobiography, though, because there were a few things that seemed a little unrealistic to me.  Also, I didn't really like the main charac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73031242">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this is an awesome book.  of course the themes of coming of age, and resisting racism and homophia are coo.  but what touched me most was the exposition of the main character, Tolson's, sense of disconnection from his own feelings and his own identity.  I suppose the point of the book is that gets o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24290343">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow--amazing book.  Graphic novel coming-of-age story of a gay man growing up in a fictional Southern town (think Birmingham, Alabama) during the Civil Rights movement.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Toland Polk is a teenaged guy growing up in the South in the days of segregation—on the white side of town. After his parents are killed in a drunk driving accident, Toland lives with his sister and her good-old-boy husband and gets a job at a gas station. Soon the struggle for civil rights is all...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6644757">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Incredible graphic novel, setting race and sexuality issues against the background of the Deep South, in the civil rights era.  The characters really jump off the page.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The people in this book are really tall and have enormous chins and upper arms, but it's the kinda of book I wouldn't mind everyone having read as a frame of reference.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard Cruse (2000)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's hard not to compare this book with Alison Bechdel's Fun Home. We did this for Comic Book Club last year. <br/>It's a coming of age story that is semi-autobiographical and set in the Civil Rights movement of the 60's. <br/>While the time period is a nice parallel it didn't work for me as much....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56732342">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[the setting(civil-rights era south) of this story is for me a good reminder of how cushy my life is today as far as having any sort of queer identity.  <br/>does anyone out there know if there are any longer comic works dealing with homos in the pre-stonewall era?<br/>at any rate i was completely ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33639595">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this was a really interesting graphic novel about a white gay man living through the civil rights movement in the south. it is really honest about the starting point of this particular person at that specific time. no glossing over his learning process about racism and being anti-racist. it was supe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45201716">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A good story about racism, homosexuality and the prejudice involving them during the civil rights movements.  The story is a little sad, but very realistic (told from the first person and I wasn't sure if it was true or not).  The characters are very well developed and the reader really connects wit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61631119">more...</a>]]></body>
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