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Blackbird is a funny, moving, coming-of-age novel about growing up black and gay in southern California. The lead character, Johnnie Ray Rousseau, is a high school student upset over losing the lead role in the school staging of Romeo and Juliet. As if that weren't enough, his best friend has been beaten badly by his father, and his girlfriend is pressuring him to have sex for the first time. All the while, he's intrigued by Marshall MacNeill, whom he meets at an audition and is surely the sexiest man to walk God's green earth at least according to Johnnie Ray.
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Young, black and gay, high-school student Johnnie Ray Rousseau has an all-consuming affair with a blond, godlike filmmaker. PW noted that the author "captures the bouncy exuberance of California adolesence" while "exploiting some of the cliches of gay society."
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- PublisherSt. Martin's Press
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0312083408
- ISBN 13 9780312083403
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages182
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