The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy by Robert Leleux
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Book Summary Author: Robert Leleux Edition: Hardcover Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published) Published: 2008-01-08 ISBN: 0312361688 Number of pages: 288 Publisher: St. Martin's Press |
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Book Reviews of the The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy
Customer Review: A Texas tiara
Summary: 5 Stars
Reading Robert Leleux's first novel, "The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy" is such a joy that one almost wants to visit Texas....well, visit, but not live there, maybe. His breezy style and cast of offbeat characters is as warm as his home state, with enough aromas to want more. It is terrific.
Leleux, whose book centers around his mother and his partner, accomplishes what many writers, especially young ones, fail to do. He keeps the focus largely on his family and friends, while allowing himself to remain just close enough for inclusion. Leleux has a penchant for creating sentences that start with a fact, add a comment and take another turn for a reaction to the comment. What the reader has, in the final analysis, is a book that shines. His humor radiates throughout and reading this in one sitting is very much suggested.
Like some novels, there are a few too many characters to muddy the waters without adding much heft to the story and if I had one criticism of this book, it would be that. But that's small potatoes compared to an otherwise brilliant endeavor on the part of Robert Leleux. I highly recommend "The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy" and hope he has another book in the works.