Dream Boy

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 195. Quarter-bound black linen cloth over purple paper-covered boards, lettered in gilt to spine; mauve endpapers. Jacket design by Molly Renda, with rear panel blurbs by Reynolds Price and Dorothy Allison.

Winner of the American Library Association's "Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual Book Award" (Stonewall Book Award). Nominated for the Lambda Award for Fiction. Author's second book, after the highly praised Winter Birds (1994). Novel of adolescent gay love, set in 'a corner of the rural South blistering with hate and petty meanness.' Dedicated to his German translator, Frank Heibert, whose efforts brought the author's books first to print, as American publishers rejected them as "too dark" for nearly a decade.

"Grimsley clearly understands the pain and confusion of budding love... in this singular display of literary craftsmanship." –Publishers Weekly (starred review)