What becomes of the brokenhearted : a memoir

by E. Lynn Harris

Paper Book, 2003

LCC

PS3558.A64438 Z468

Status

Available

Call number

PS3558.A64438 Z468

Publication

New York : Doubleday, 2003.

Description

Biography & Autobiography. Multi-Cultural. Nonfiction. HTML:For almost a decade, beloved storyteller E. Lynn Harris has welcomed you into his family with his passionate, warm and trail-blazing novels. Now, he invites you into the most intimate world ever�his own. Since his first book Invisible Life was published in the early 1990s, New York Times bestselling author E. Lynn Harris has wowed, charmed and romanced millions of readers. As a master storyteller, E. Lynn Harris has created an intimate and glamorous world centered around his signature themes of love, friendship and family. People all over the world have fallen in love with his characters and laughed and cried with them. Now, in his most daring act yet, E. Lynn Harris writes the memoir of his life�from his childhood in Arkansas as a closeted gay boy through his struggling days as a self-published author to his rise as a New York Times bestselling author. In What Becomes of the Brokenhearted, E. Lynn Harris shares an extraordinary life touched by loneliness and depression, but more important, he reveals the triumphant life of a small-town dreamer who was able through writing to make his dreams�and more�come true.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member p4style
Fascinating story of ELHs upbringing. Haven't read anything to date by ELH that I did not truly enjoy from page one.
LibraryThing member LailaWhite
Biography , He was a unhappy man. He realizes after a failed marriage and other relationships that he is gay.
LibraryThing member MrsPeachum
I have never read a novel by E. Lynn Harris. I heard about him for the first time through a podcast from the Philadelphia Library and he sounded like a very interesting person. He grew up in Arkansas in the 60s, which was in itself hard enough for a black boy, but he was also gay and had an abusive
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stepfather who wanted to beat the "sissy" out of him. I still think his story is basically interesting, but his writing style is shockingly boring. The whole thing just drags along, and sounds more like whiny reminiscing. I would not have been surprised if the guy was an actor, or baseball player, or something of the sort, but he was a writer! of novels! Now I'm not sure if I feel compelled to try some of his fiction, or not. It would have to be much better written than this autobiography!
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Physical description

266 p.; 21 inches

ISBN

0385502648 / 9780385502641
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