Beth's review
A Boy I Once Knew: What a Teacher Learned from her Student
by Elizabeth Stone
I thought it was great in spite of that, but agree with the point you raised.
Beth's review
A Boy I Once Knew: What a Teacher Learned from her Student by Elizabeth Stone
Beth's review
rating:
bookshelves:
biographies_memoirs,
glbt
I couldn't finish this one, unfortunately. I found that I wasn't very interested in the author's view of the guy she was writing about. The guy himself was pretty interesting, although he did a lot of drugs (urban gay male culture in SF in the 80s--not surprising, of course), and I don't find that very interesting to read about. But the author is so boringly mainstream (white middle-class academic married to a nice white man with two nice white children living on the nice East Coast) that I couldn't get pulled in. It was a very original, fascinating premise (writing a memoir-cum-biography using a former student's diaries that were bequeated to the author). Too bad.
I thought it was great in spite of that, but agree with the point you raised.