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1 online resource (340 pages) : illustrations |
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"From a young, gay environmentalist, a searing coming-of-age memoir set against the arid landscape of rural North Dakota, where homosexuality "seems akin to a ticking bomb." "I am a child of the American West, a landscape so rich and wide that my culture trembles with terror before its power." So begins Taylor Brorby's Boys and Oil, a haunting, bracingly honest memoir about growing up gay amidst the harshness of rural North Dakota, "a place where there is no safety in a ravaged landscape of mining and fracking." In visceral prose, Brorby recounts his upbringing in the coalfields; his adolescent infatuation with books; and how he felt intrinsically different from other boys. Now an environmentalist, Brorby uses the destruction of large swathes of the West as a metaphor for the terror he experienced as a youth. From an assault outside a bar in an oil boom town to a furtive romance, and from his awakening as an activist to his arrest at the Dakota Access Pipeline, Boys and Oil provides a startling portrait of an America that persists despite well-intentioned legal protections"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Brorby, Taylor.
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Gay men -- North Dakota -- Biography.
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Environmentalists -- North Dakota -- Biography.
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Oil spills -- Environmental aspects -- United States.
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Autobiographies.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Brorby, Taylor. Boys and oil New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2022] 9781324090861 (DLC) 2022005151 (OCoLC)1272856881 |
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9781324090878 |
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1324090871 |
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