The Hand-Reared Boy by Brian W. Aldiss (1970)
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Overview: One ofthe landmark novels of our time, The Hand-Reared Boy was the first British novel to explore, frankly and with unabashed honesty, the sexual awakening of a young boy. Horatio Stubbs grows from childhood to adolescence and his preoccupations (and those of all young men) are described with wit and perception as he reaches puberty.
“A very funny and a very decent book … unless laughter is corrupting, it’s not going to corrupt anyone.”
Robert Nye, The Guardian
The Hand-Reared Boy was rejected by thirteen publishers before being published in 1970. Readers were more accustomed to Brian Aldiss as a writer of award-winning science fiction. It has now been recognised for what it is – an original, delightfully funny description of the young Horatio Stubbs’s burgeoning sexuality, the emotions of adolescence have never been treated so explicitly.
“A spirit of joyful exuberance (is) the book’s disarming keynote.”
New York Times
The Hand-Reared Boy no longer provokes a sense of shock but it has become the classic study of a boy’s self-discovery and realisation that other people are more than sexual objects.
Longlisted for the 1970 Lost Booker Prize.
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Cover illustration of ‘The Model’ by Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827),
Genre: Memoir
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