Boy, Blake Nelson
Boy, Blake Nelson
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Boy

Author: Blake Nelson

Narrator: Vikas Adam

Unabridged: 8 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/06/2017

Synopsis

Every school has them: the cool kids. The insiders. Gavin Meeks is one of them. He lives an easy life of parties, girls, snowboarding adventures and whatever else comes his way.

But when dark, dramatic Antoinette crash-lands at Evergreen High, the entire school feels the impact. Antoinette has seen things, been places, experienced deep tragedy first-hand. She's not just a rebel, she's a force of nature. Gavin, for one, is captivated and is soon pursuing interests he never knew he had. With a camera in hand, he finds a way to express his own truth, including his feelings for his favorite subject: Antoinette. It all leads to one passionate, life-altering night in this achingly authentic story from bestselling author Blake Nelson.

About Blake Nelson

Blake Nelson is an American author of adult and children's literature. He grew up in Portland, Oregon, and attended Wesleyan University and New York University. He lives in Hillsboro, Oregon, in the Portland metropolitan area.

Nelson began his career writing short humor pieces for Details magazine in the mid-nineties. These articles, with titles like "How to Date a Feminist" and "How to Live on $3600 a year", explored the slacker west coast lifestyle.

His first novel Girl was excerpted in Sassy magazine in three successive issues. The mail Sassy received in response was key to the eventual publication of Girl. Nelson's novel Paranoid Park was made into a film of the same name by Gus Van Sant. The book won the prestigious Grinzane Cavour Prize in Italy. The film won a special 60th Anniversary prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007.

Nelson's newest novel The Prince of Venice Beach, is a finalist for the 2015 Edgar Award, and his novel Recovery Road has been adapted into a TV drama of the same name.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mikaela

Let me start by saying, This book is not a "bad" book. However, I do find some issues with the plot and description of the book. When I picked this book, I was under the impression that Antoinette and Gavin were going to have this epic love story. That is not the case though. Gavin and Antoinette ha......more

Goodreads review by Susane

Could I love Blake Nelson's books any more? No. No, I could not. BOY brought all the feels of classic Blake Nelson, and was such a fun, reflective read. Absolutely recommended...along with all of his other books!......more

Goodreads review by Madeline

I thought this book was a pretty nice, easy read. The thing that got me kind of upset was in the description they said he focused mostly on Antionette and it seemed like he was going to fall in love with her throughout the book . But in the story he had multiple girlfriends and at at the end him and......more

Goodreads review by Shannis

This book is so good. Honestly you could just say it's an updated version of Nelson's early-90s classic, Girl, but that's not meant in a bad way. This time we follow a boy named Gavin through his sophomore, junior, and senior years of high school, and it's way better than the time Blake Nelson wrote......more

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