Prentice Hall College Div. Used - Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear and may have some markings on the inside. Prentice Hall College Div unknown
Bookseller reference : GRP2587001 ISBN : 0132548062 9780132548069
New York NY: St. Martin's Press. Offered is a first edition first printing of "Special Teachers / Special Boys" a novel written by Pete Fisher and Marc Rubin and published in 1979 by St. Martin's Press out of New York City. A hardcover in dust jacket the title is listed in Ian Young's outstanding bibliography The Male Homosexual in Literature 1981 as having primary gay male content Young 1260. From the inside front dust jacket flap reading in part: "First day of class. Five boys bad-ass down the block on their way to an early joint in Riverside Park. Another plays Stevie Wonder on his stolen Panasonic to ease himself awake. Another leaves Red Hook wearing the embroidered denim of 'The Deadly Ghouls'; in his pocket he carries four cherry bombs and fifteen hustled dollars for his first day at the Lennox School. And the teachers come too from their own lives and dreams - And Bob Davidson uncomfortably aware that he too is carrying a potential explosion. The staff knows he is gay but the students don't - These boys and teachers are the Lennox School a 'special' school where a week-long absence may be spent in the Riker's Island Detention Center - The boys chafe at the edge of manhood struggling for control with the school their families each other and with their own needs frustrations and rages - What happens here when a teacher comes out" Light sunning along the upper edge of the front cover else Fine in a Fine dust jacket. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1979. St. Martin's Press hardcover
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