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The narrator of these autobiographical stories and personal essays has man trouble--trouble with his homophobic father, his horny best friend, his rigid high school principal, and a slew of "fauxmosexuals" and elusive boyfriends--and a knack for butting heads with fundamentalist Christians. Bitingly funny and at times harrowingly sad, Lets Shut Out the World traces the man-hungry and misanthropic journey of an intensely bibliophilistic young man following his natural bent from a desolate Texas landscape of tumbleweeds, Jesus freaks, and compliant straight boys to the gay capital of San Francisco in pursuit of sex, drugs, a lover, and more. Whether describing having his hair styled by a gang of eighth-grade bullies; staging a Satan festival in the main hall of Greenvale High complete with black robes, black candles, and raw chickens; succumbing to a sneezing fit inside the healing Sanctuary at Chimayo; or indulging in inappropriate sex with a caregiver, Bentley writes with a pen dipped in blood, indignation, and grim whimsy. This collection also provides the back story and sequel, and vividly fills out the authors rough-and-ready romantic escapades detailed in his diaries, the Lambd

Who reads Let's Shut Out the World?

Author

Kevin Bentley

Publisher

[San Francisco, CA]: Green Candy Press ; [Berkeley, CA]: Distributed by P.G.W.

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781931160339

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Gender Studies, Social Science, Memoir

Rating

3.69 / 5 (25 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14