by Armistead Maupin - £9.99 Transworld Publishers Ltd (Black Swan) (2018)
paperback
ISBN 13: 9781784161040 | ISBN 10: 1784161047
"A sweet, filthy peach of a memoir from a cultural explosion of a man."Born in the mid-twentieth century and raised in the heart of conservative North Carolina, Armistead Maupin lost his virginity to another man “on the very spot where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.” Realizing that the South was too small for him, this son of a traditional lawyer packed his earthly belongings into his Opel GT (including a beloved portrait of a Confederate ancestor), and took to the road in search of adventure. It was a journey that would lead him from a homoerotic Navy initiation ceremony in the jungles of Vietnam to that strangest of strange lands: San Francisco in the early 1970s.
(Caitlin Moran)
(Price & availability last checked: June 2018)
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