The Boy Who Went Away, by Eli Gottlieb
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The Boy Who Went Away, by Eli Gottlieb
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Winner of the American Academy’s Rome Prize for fiction, Eli Gottlieb’s tender, harrowing coming-of-age novel finally returns to print.
Denny Graubart, child-narrator and “domestic surveillance expert,” is having some terrible suspicions about his mother and autistic brother. It’s the 1960s, aka the Diagnostic Dark Ages of Autism, and while his mother struggles to keep his brother out of an institution, signs of something more disturbing are beginning to emerge before young Denny’s eyes. Battered by his own tragicomic sexual awakening during a long, hot summer, Denny will eventually find his most horrified suspicions about his family confirmed. A powerfully drawn portrait of two brothers locked into an asymmetrical childhood and a family struggling against a weight of medical ignorance, The Boy Who Went Away is “shockingly, electrically alive” (Phillip Lopate). It is also an indispensable bookend to Gottlieb’s Best Boy, which recounts the impact of autism on the same family from the other side, many years later, in the voice of a middle-aged autistic man. The Boy Who Went Away, by Eli Gottlieb- Amazon Sales Rank: #502771 in Books
- Published on: 2015-09-07
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.20" h x .70" w x 5.50" l, .48 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 256 pages
Amazon.com Review Set in the suburbs of New Jersey in the summer of 1967, The Boy Who Went Away is a skilled debut novel that tells the story of one boy's maturation and the change a single summer visits on his troubled family. Denny is a sneak who begins the story playing domestic spy: listening in on phone conversations, steaming open the mail, and interloping on his mother, father, and his autistic brother, Fad. His Eddy Haskell of a friend Derwent helps usher Denny into an adolescent world of sex and irresponsible actions, and his spying uncovers a set of circumstances that teach him even more about adult life, namely his mother's infidelity and the looming institutionalization of his brother, who is prone to rocking in place and uttering comments like, "I want to be a wooden world that stays in one place so I can touch it whenever I want to." Together, the combination of his mother's love, his father's wits, and the simple love of a bothersome brother creates a moving story about the basic components of family life. The youthful prankishness and frank language keep the story moving and honest, and the book perfectly captures the way a single summer changes and seasons a young man's life.
From Publishers Weekly Adolescent Denny Graubert's firm belief that his is "one of the craziest, bizarre, most twisted families that ever lived" lies at the heart of this engrossing first novel. With the inquisitiveness of a child, the insight of an adult and the wit of a survivor, Denny tells the story of the four pivotal months during the summer of 1967 in which his family struggles to keep the state of New Jersey from condemning his autistic older brother to a mental institution. As Americans lose a war in Vietnam and the Yankees lose a war in the Bronx, Denny's brother, Fad, does something "spectacular, embarrassing, humiliating" every time he goes out in public; his mother, embroiled in an affair with one of Fad's many doctors, moves "around the house looking like an oil painting of herself;" and his father remains drunk for 164 days straight behind "the rattling panes of the New York Times." Trying to make sense of it all, Denny yearns for attention and normalcy and spies relentlessly on his family and neighbors. Gottlieb records the utterly confounding and inevitable plunge into adulthood with bold clarity. He depicts the spoken and unspoken language of cruelty and love in a family with confidence and poetry. But he is at his very best in the freshness of his imagery, creating a world so vivid and memorable the reader finds all five senses delightfully engaged in experiencing it. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal YA. This autobiographical coming-of-age novel is set in New Jersey in the summer of 1967. Denny Graubart is trying to understand the world around him, especially his parents and his older brother, Fad, who is struggling with some sort of mental illness. Denny's mother is obsessed with keeping Fad out of a state institution, even resorting to having an affair with the psychiatrist who offers hope for the young man, while his father escapes from the nightmare by drinking heavily. The first part of the novel is reminiscent of Salinger's Catcher in the Rye as Denny experiences growing adolescent sexual awareness and curiosity and a loss of innocence. The pivotal point in the story is the state visitation when Fad's future will be decided. By summer's end, Fad is institutionalized, Denny's parents have settled back into a more normal relationship, and Denny is confused about his conflicting feelings at his sibling's absence. The novel can be funny at times but more often it presents a very somber look at a very serious situation.?Dottie Kraft, formerly at Fairfax County Public Schools, VACopyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful. An excellent novel By Richard This is a touching and beautifully written book about a troubled young man and his family. The author succeeds brilliantly at two very difficult things: 1) he manages to write believably from the point of view of a disturbed teenager, making him both sympathic and--at times--difficult to take; 2) he creates an honest portrait of motherly love, with all its hopes and despairs. It's one of the best characterizations of a mother in modern American fiction, in fact. I highly recommend this book.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. An insightful and witty portrait of a family By Richard The author pulls off two very difficult things with this intriguing and beautifully written novel: 1) he writes from the point of view a disturbed kid, managing somehow to make us both sympathetic toward the young man and appalled by some of the things he does; 2) he gives us one of the most brilliant and detailed portraits of motherly love--blind, crazy, desperate--in modern American fiction. In addition to all this, the book is also quite witty. Highly recommended.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Gottlieb's insights are presented in a manner that is rare. By A Customer Gottlieb writes intimately lletting the reader in all the way. The book goes far deeper than a presentation of various components/people -- it provides a mirror for all who have grown up with a mother who unknowingly abuses the entire family in order to be comfortable with herself -- all under the guise of love. It's a healing experience if you refrain from focusing on the superficial--gottlieb puts the choice in the hands of the reader. The pain is sweet.
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