Shockproof Sydney Skate - Softcover

Meaker, Marijane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060087919 ISBN 13: 9780060087913

Publisher: HarpPeren, 2002

Synopsis

Sydney Skate has dubbed himself "Shockproof": He decoded his mother's gossip with her glamorous lesbian girlfriends at age eight (but has never let on to her that he knows she's gay). He easily shrugs off his father's demands to skip college and join him in the exciting world of swimming pool sales for suburbanites. During his summer days, he deftly cares for snakes at the local pet shop. And he has memorized the sex scenes of every book he's ever read in order to better seduce women. Nothing, however, has prepared Sydney for his mother sweeping Alison Gray, the girl of his dreams, off her feet.

Witty and perceptive, Sydney's coming-of-age story has been a classic of lesbian literature since it was first published in 1973. It was a Literary Guild Alternate and a Book Find Club Selection. Hailed as the Catcher in the Rye for the seventies, Shockproof Sydney Skate exposes the confusion of its time and remains keenly relevant to the sexual absurdities of today.

About this title

About the Author:

Marijane Meaker has written many young adult novels under the pseudonym of M.E. Kerr. She lives in New York City.

From Publishers Weekly:

Sydney finds himself in a quandary when the girl he loves and his mother, a lesbian, develop crushes on each other. "Meaker has written a very funny novel about our current preoccupation with sex and what it is doing to us," remarked PW.
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About this edition

• Publisher: HarpPeren
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0060087919
• ISBN 13: 9780060087913
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240