A teenage boy struggling with the coming-of-age issues of sexuality, religion, and peer approval is overwhelmed, but soldiers on. After several years, he comes to understand the family forces that have left him so deeply troubled, and the process of
I Made My Boy Out of Poetry is a powerful literary vision of rare scope, beauty and emotional intensity composed of stories and poems that flow in and out of each other like the most lucid and articulate of dreams. These are portraits and studies of
Are you still wondering why he never called you back?
Get into the convoluted mind of the single man. Read Hard-Boiled Men by Guy Jacobs. 2007 New York Book Festival, 2007 Hollywood Book Festival Awards
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Major influences: Charles Bukowski, Henry Miller, John Fante,.Philip Roth, Richard Russo, Jerzi Kosinski, Michael Chabon............
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Henry Miller,Charles Bukowski,Jerzy Kosinski, Fredrick Exley, Richard Russo, Philip Roth, Leonard Cohen,Tom Waits ......
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2007 NY Book Festival Award
2007 Hollywood Book Festiva Award
2006 DIY Book Festiva Award
?Powerful, inspiring and heartfelt. Hard-Boiled Men is The Catcher in the Rye all grown up; there?s a little bit of Ben Wise in every one of us.?
?Dr. Paul S. Lieber, Emerson College
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