Autobiography of an Androgyne
by Earl Lind
Our Price: $29.50
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Used: from $25.96 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Earl LindEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-07-14
ISBN: 1410108805
Number of pages: 300
Publisher: Fredonia Books (NL)
Book Reviews of Autobiography of an Androgyne
Book Review: The more things change...
Summary: 4 Stars
...the more they stay the same. Autobiography of an Androgyne is the personally written diary of the author's struggle with his homosexuality at the turn of the 20th century. Although at times confusing (paragraphs and sentences in the author's version of Latin abound), by the book's end I saw only slight differences between what the author had gone through and what gay people go through today. Lind plays fast and loose with terms and I often had to stop and figure out what he was referring to; I certainly had to use a Latin/English dictionary. (An androgyne as used here is a gay male. A night of female impersonation is going out on the hunt for sex.) The author himself (not a spoiler) was castrated at 28 by choice and the book ends when he has reached 45. Although I read this for research, I found myself very sympathetic to the author's travails by the time I finished this ultimately fascinating social history.
General Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Audiobooks on Cassette
- Audiobooks on CD
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- e-Books
- Engineering
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Medicine
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in General Books
Pieces of My Heart: A Lifeby Robert Wagner
HarperEntertainment; Published: 2008-10-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $13.00
Price in other shops:
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesiaby Elizabeth Gilbert
Penguin (Non-Classics); Published: 2007-01-30; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.00
Price in other shops:
Too Fat to Fishby Artie Lange, Anthony Bozza
Spiegel & Grau; Published: 2008-11-11; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $14.97
Price in other shops:
The Wordy Shipmatesby Sarah Vowell
Riverhead Hardcover; Published: 2008-10-07; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $14.97
Price in other shops:
Letter to My Daughterby Maya Angelou
Random House; Published: 2008-09-23; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $13.09
Price in other shops:
Here's the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voiceby Maureen Mccormick
William Morrow; Published: 2008-10-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $13.78
Price in other shops:
A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanityby Bill O'Reilly
Broadway; Published: 2008-09-23; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $14.67
Price in other shops:
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the Worldby Vicki Myron
Grand Central Publishing; Published: 2008-09-24; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $10.89
Price in other shops:
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Timeby Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
Penguin (Non-Classics); Published: 2007-01-30; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.25
Price in other shops:
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Lifeby Alice Schroeder
Bantam; Published: 2008-09-29; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $19.25
Price in other shops: