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Language English Pages 195 pp. Originally published 1985 | 4/5 AbeBooks Publication date 1985 ISBN 0-914017-06-3 Country United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Publisher Gay Presses of New York Similar The lure, Contemporary Gay Romances, Like People in History: A, Men who loved me, Looking glass lives | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ambidextrous: The Secret Lives of Children (1985), is a novel by the American author Felice Picano. The book is a semi-autobiographical account of the author's life growing up in the 1950s. Major themes include adolescent sexuality and coming out.
A "bold, funny and excruciatingly honest" biographic tale of the author's own childhood and coming out experience, that inevitably affects the reader's retrospective view of his own childhood memories.
When it was first published, the novel was perceived as so scandalous in Great Britain that it was burned on arrival directly at the London docks. Still, or perhaps because of its reception upon release, the book has received classical status and has been re-released on more than one occasion, the latest release being in 2003.