From the beloved author of 100 Boyfriends, a wrenching, sexy, and exhilaratingly energetic memoir in verse.In Ten Bridges I've Burnt, Brontez Purnell-the bard of the underloved and overlooked-turns his gaze inward. A storyteller with a musical eye for the absurdity of his own existence, he is peerless in his ability to find the levity within the stormiest of crises. Here, in his first collection of genre-defying verse, Purnell reflects on his ...
A collection of short, hilarious, profound, and filthy vignettes, Johnny Would You Love Me is a radical thrill ride through the nuances of queer sex and queer love that shows truly what it means to live on the fringes of a conservative society as a black, working-class gay man.
Überbordend, unverschämt und urkomisch - Brontez Purnell erzählt vom keineswegs perfekten Leben junger Männer in einer Welt, die von ihnen nichts wissen will, weil sie arm, schwarz und schwul sind. Auf der Suche nach Zugehörigkeit taumeln sie halb- bis volltrunken durch die Minenfelder romantischer Missgeschicke. Doch ganz gleich, wohin es sie dabei verschlägt, ob in schmutzige Lagerhallen oder gentrifizierte Bars, in dysfunktionale Wohngemein...
The Cruising Diaries is a queer coming of age memoir that's not for the faint of heart. Follow author and musician Brontez Purnell on a series of hilarious sexual misadventures through '00s Oakland. Outrageous tales of taco truck trysts and bathhouse Santas are accompanied by full-color illustrations in this glorious expanded edition.
Transgressive, foulmouthed, and wildly funny 100 Boyfriends is a filthy, unforgettable, and brutally profound ode to messy queer love. Cult hero Brontez Purnell draws us into a community of glorious misfits while giving us an uncompromising vision of desire, desperation, race, loneliness, and queerness.
Each story in 100 Boyfriends is a minor eclipse: stunning in scope, technically blinding, and entirely miraculous. I laughed and I cried and I laughed until I cried-Brontez Purnell is a marvel." --Bryan Washington, author of MemorialAn irrerverent, sensitive, and inimitable look at gay dysfunction through the eyes of a cult hero"It's like that saying, 'Where god closes a door, he opens a window, ' but in this particular case the window was on ...
DeShawn genießt sein lustvolles und kreatives Leben als Künstler in San Francisco. Doch als er sich zur Beerdigung seines Onkels auf den Weg in seine Heimat Alabama macht, beginnt er eine Reise in die eigene Vergangenheit: In Rückblicken auf seine Kindheit und Jugend, sein sexuelles Erwachen und seine verflossenen Liebhaber entsteht das Bild eines Erwachsenwerdens, das zwischen energischen Frauen und verunsicherten Jungs, zwischen Südstaaten-T...
The first children's book from multi-genre artist Purnell, a 2018 winner of the Whiting Award, sweetly portrays a common but rarely narrated childhood experience--having a single parent and taking care of a younger sibling. Full color.
