![]() ![]() ![]() However, she won’t believe him and seduces him. ![]() He admits as much to his black college friend Cherie. He’s informed that he is gay by the dual character Carolann aka Chrystal. He likes blondes, such as Todd, who definitely isn’t. He suspects Efrem’s gay, but doesn’t fancy him. He prefers the script of the Boys in the Band. Johnnie knows he’s different, but not in the way of the teenage experiences in Catcher in the Rye. And as for directing, though his burgeoning feelings are ever-present – if he gets over-stimulated he deflates by reciting the Lord is my Shepherd over and over again! – he never takes the lead in expressing and sharing them. He’s the first person narrator throughout, but he doesn’t get the star lead in a college play he’s set his heart on. Johnnie’s studying English, hoping to go to UCLA, but what he writes is less movie-script than a musical song titles and lyrics feature prominently. ‘May your life be a movie in which you are Orson Welles: Write it – direct it – star in it.’ On page one of this coming-out, coming-of-age novel the black hero Johnnie Ray Rousseau has his college yearbook signed by his best friend Efrem. Published by Arsenal Pulp Press - Little Sister’s Classics no.6. ![]()
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