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{PDF EPUB} the Boys and Their Baby by Larry Wolff ISBN 13: 9780312028787 Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} The Boys and Their Baby by Larry Wolff ISBN 13: 9780312028787. The evocation of San Francisco's ambience is the best thing about this sometimes perceptive, sometimes irritating first novel. Wolff blatantly tags his characters with symbolic names: Adam (the innocent first man) comes to California. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Larry Wolff is Professor of History at New York University. His books include "Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment" (Stanford, 1994), and "Venice and the Slavs: The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment" (Stanford, 2001). Marco Cipolloni is Professor and Chair of Spanish Language and Culture at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. His works include "Il sovrano e la corte nelle "cartas" della Conquista"(1991), "Tra memoria apostolica e racconto profetico: Il compromesso etnografico francescano e le "cosas" della Nuova Spagna," (1994), and the critical edition of the "Teatro completo" of Miguel Angel Asturias (2003). From Publishers Weekly : The evocation of San Francisco's ambience is the best thing about this sometimes perceptive, sometimes irritating first novel. Wolff blatantly tags his characters with symbolic names: Adam (the innocent first man) comes to California to teach English in a private school and moves in with his erstwhile Yale roommate Huck (as in Finn) and Huck's adorable baby boy, Christopher, whose presence will indeed redeem all the characters as they move from guilt to penance and redemption. The mother-dominated Adam, so unwordly he is almost a wimp, is overwhelmed by San Francisco's sophistication, its joie de vivre that coexists with an earthquake mentality. He is introduced to Huck's friends: the chanteuse Lucille, who becomes his lover; a gay duo, Timmy and Tommy, who live upstairs; the five students in his class at the Stringfellow School, all of whom are less naive than he; and another former Yale classmate and fellow teacher, Amy Armstrong, with whom he also begins an affair. Questions about fidelity and responsibility, musings about the validity of structuralist criticism (Adam's mother is a noted professor in the field) and the violation of taboos mingle with genuinely appealing scenes of domesticity. But the story is fuzzy and unfocused, and the central eventthe arrival of Christopher's mentally unbalanced motheris foreshadowed with so heavy a hand that suspense is nil. While intelligently written, in the end this novel about "boys who are somehow not quite men and men who are still somehow little boys" offers more promise than satisfaction. Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. Babes in Boyland : KANSAS IN AUGUST <i> by Patrick Gale (E. P. Dutton: $15.95; 140 pp.) </i> : THE BOYS AND THEIR BABY <i> by Larry Wolff (Alfred A. Knopf: $16.95; 258 pp.) </i> At least two new works of fiction (as well as the film “Three Men and a Baby”) suggest that this is so. Young men accidently become single fathers and find themselves able to commit to fatherhood in a way they could not to other relationships. “Kansas in August,” the latest novel by Britisher Patrick Gale, takes place in neither: In fact, it is London in winter. The title comes from the song, “I’m in Love With a Wonderful Guy” from “South Pacific,” and my only complaint about this amusing, well-crafted, and stylish novel was that the song kept running through my mind while I was reading it. Hilary, the soon-to-be-father, is a failed dancer who loves American musicals; he is pursuing a hopeless romance with Rufus, a bisexual cad. Unbeknown to Hilary, Rufus has begun an affair with his sister, Henry (short for Henrietta), but the incestuous triangle remains secret to all because Henry has concealed her real name and identity from Rufus, lest he feel threatened by her position as a psychiatrist at a very loony loony bin. One night, after being stood up by Rufus, Hilary finds an abandoned baby near a subway station. Hilary takes him to the authorities, but the social worker assumes that he is trying to unload his own illegitimate offspring. Forced to care for the baby (whom he calls Dan, after a pet guinea pig), Hilary finds he likes it, and ultimately decides to adopt him; but complications abound. Gale does for London what Tama Janowitz does for New York and Cyra McFadden did for Marin County. We learn about “signing on” for the dole, life in tower blocks, and Pakki bashing. The characters never moved me deeply, but they were truly clever ducks, and great fun all ‘round. Add to this that Gale turns 26 this year, and it becomes clear that we have a rather daunting talent on our hands. Larry Wolff, who makes his debut as a novelist with “The Boys and Their Baby,” also has a strong sense of place. The place here is San Francisco, where gay couples are common; but for Adam Berg, “homosexuality, like day care, has never been much more than an abstract concept. .” Newly arrived, Adam can’t help but notice not only a lot of homosexuality, but that his new roommate, Huck, has an infant son named Christopher, and that Christopher’s mother is mysteriously absent. Adam, a teacher in a private high school, becomes involved with two women: a cabaret singer who ravishes him and a fellow teacher with a penchant for flamboyant shoes. He is also followed by a troubled gay student and threatened by Christopher’s disturbed mother; but the person who has the greatest influence on him is the baby: “There are moments . when the baby is so transcendently beautiful that Adam can’t keep looking at him.” Adam’s mother is a famous professor of literature at Yale, and just in case we overlook the significance of the characters’ names--Adam, Huck, Christopher--she points them out to us in letters to her son. This is a coming-of-age novel: Adam and Huck are “boys” whose experience of fatherhood forces them to maturity. Unfortunately, we tend to wonder what took them so long. It’s only fair that men get a piece of the parenting action, since women are becoming astronauts and neurosurgeons. Besides, the men in these novels actually enjoy changing diapers, and that can only represent a giant leap forward for personkind. The Boys and Their Baby. "The boys" are Adam and Huck, former college roommates. A decade out of college and just as long out of touch with each other, they are reunited when Adam arrives to share Huck's apartment on Russian Hill in San Francisco. "Their baby" is Christopher, Huck's entrancing almost-one-year-old son, whose mother is nowhere in evidence and, at first, much to Adam's befuddlement, mysteriously unmentioned. The story centers on Adam as he sets out to construct a life for himself in the unfamiliar city. He assumes his new job as an English teacher at a fancy private school, where one of his students develops an obsessive (and disturbing) interest in him. Adam coasts into simultaneous affairs with two women: one of them a striking, locally celebrated chanteuse, and the other a physics teacher with a distinctive footwear fetish. As the city and its denizens-women and men, gay and straight, young and old-make Adam welcome in various and telling ways. as he approaches a certain peace with his past (through letters to and from his riotously enraged ex-girlfriend and his hugely intimidating mother). as living with the baby and the baby's father exerts a profound influence on Adam. as the story of the baby's missing mother dramatically unfolds. we watch Adam come to surprising terms with his life and himself. The Boys and Their Baby is a wonderfully entertaining novel of domestic and sexual manners, 1980s San Francisco-style, marking the debut of splendidly gifted novelist Larry Wolff. CONNECT WITH THE AUTHOR. SIGN UP FOR AUTHOR UPDATES. MACMILLAN NEWSLETTER. Sign up to receive information about new books, author events, and special offers. Reviews About the Author From the Publisher. Reviews. Reviews from Goodreads. About the author. Larry Wolff. Larry Wolff is Professor of History at New York University. His books include "Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment" (Stanford, 1994), and "Venice and the Slavs: The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment" (Stanford, 2001). Marco Cipolloni is Professor and Chair of Spanish Language and Culture at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. His works include "Il sovrano e la corte nelle "cartas" della Conquista"(1991), "Tra memoria apostolica e racconto profetico: Il compromesso etnografico francescano e le "cosas" della Nuova Spagna," (1994), and the critical edition of the "Teatro completo" of Miguel Angel Asturias (2003). The Beach Boys — Where They’ve Been and Where They Are Now. The Funhouse! Take a Tour of Pink and Carey Hart's Santa Barbara Home. 'Eight Is Enough' Cast Then and Now: See the Stars Reunited. See the Most Adorable Photos of Barbra Streisand's Granddaughter Westlyn. Kevin Costner Has 7 Amazing Kids — Meet His Blended Family. 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