Days Running
A Novel
$36.45
- Paperback
216 pages
- Release Date
25 February 2025
Summary
A dynamic portrait of one queer, Black boy’s experience in 1970s Cincinnati.
Sixteen-year-old Cliffy Douglas’s life is leveling up. An academic superstar on an accelerated path, he’s about to put high school behind him for college on the West Coast. His mentally ill father seems committed to seeking help for both his bipolar disorder and the PTSD brought back from the war in Vietnam. Cliffy even has a boyfriend—a summer romance that just might be the real thing.
But Cliffy’s l…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781635902235 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1635902231 |
| Author: | Shawn Stewart Ruff |
| Publisher: | Semiotext (E) |
| Imprint: | Semiotext |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 216 |
| Release Date: | 25 February 2025 |
| Weight: | 252g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 137mm x 16mm |
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“I loved this beautiful and haunting novel, about escape, survival, and justice … both timely and timeless. Ruff uses his considerable novelistic skills to create complex characters that defy our expectations and offer paths of redemption even in the most harrowing of times.”—Carley Moore, author of Panpocalypse
About The Author
Shawn Stewart Ruff
Shawn Stewart Ruff is the author of three novels, including Finlater, 2008 winner of a Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction and a finalist for the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award. He is also the editor of the landmark Go the Way Your Blood Beats: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Fiction by African American Writers (1996).
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