Bøger af Bill Konigsberg

The award-winning novel about being out, being proud, and being ready for something else... now in paperback.

The 2009 Lambda Literary Award-winning novel is finally available in paperback! This new second edition includes two brand new bonus chapters, a foreword by former NFL punter Chris Kluwe, and an afterword by outsports.com co-founder Jim Buzinski. Star quarterback Bobby Framingham, one of the most talented high school football players in California, knows he's different from his teammates. They're like brothers, but they don't know one essential thing: Bobby is gay. Can he still be one of the guys and be honest about who he is? When he's outed against his will by a student reporter, Bobby must find a way to earn back his teammates' trust and accept that his path to success might be more public, and more difficult, than he'd hoped. An affecting novel about identity that also delivers great sportswriting. "A thought-provoking, funny, and ultimately uplifting story of self-actualization that masterfully defies stereotypes about both coming out and team sports." -School Library Journal "A thoughtful, powerful novel." -Booklist "It's tough enough completing your pass as the linebackers blitz, but when your private life is also crashing in, the game is about survival. A hard-hitting first novel about quarterbacking your life." - Robert Lipsyte, author of Raiders Night "How I rooted for Bobby, and all his imperfect, complicated, oh-so-human friends." - Catherine Gilbert Murdock, author of Dairy Queen and The Off Season

"Carson Smith isn't thrilled to be spending the summer with his estranged dad in Billings, Montana. But then he meets Aisha Stinson, the most beautiful girl he's ever seen. And the smartest. And the funniest. They connect like he never has with anyone, and fall into friendship after she lets him know she's only into girls. Carson's dad is still bitter about the disappearance of his dad more than thirty years earlier. When Carson and Aisha discover a box full of cards from his grandfather, some of them recent, they realize the old man is still out there somewhere. Carson and Aisha begin a journey to find a man who wanted to be lost, in an unreliable Dodge Neon, with one very prickly mascot. And what comes next is an extraordinary, enlightening, hilarious, inspiring, complete and utter mindblower of a road trip that will transform both their lives.

Carson Smith hat sich damit abgefunden, den Sommer in Billings, Montana, zu verbringen und seiner Mutter bei der Pflege seines Vaters zu helfen, eines sterbenden Alkoholikers, den er nicht wirklich kennt. Dann lernt er Aisha Stinson kennen, ein wunderschönes Mädchen, das vor ihrer schwierigen Familie weggelaufen ist, und entdeckt ein Geheimnis über seinen Großvater, der vor Jahrzehnten ohne Vorwarnung oder Erklärung verschwunden ist. Gemeinsam begeben sich Carson und Aisha auf einen epischen Roadtrip, um Carsons Vater zu retten, seine zerrissene Familie wiederherzustellen und das "Stachelschwein der Wahrheit" in ihrem Leben zu entdecken.

Aaron and Tillie don't know each other, but they are both feeling suicidal, and arrive at the George Washington Bridge at the same time, intending to jump. But what results is far from straightforward in this absorbing, honest lifesaver from acclaimed author Bill Konigsberg.

From the award-winning author of Openly Straight, a story about two teens falling in love over a summer that throws everything possible to keep them apart.