Article: Not-so-sweet 16: a new novel about a gay teen and his pickpocket dad avoids all the coming-out cliches.(Belmondo Style)(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)

Belmondo Style

* Adam Berlin * St. Martin's * $23.93

Everyone knows the stereotypical ideas about gay men and their mothers, but often ignored is the relationship between gay men and their fathers. Adam Berlin's new book, Belmondo Style, explores the nature of one such father-son tie in a coming-of-age story about Ben Chiziver, a track star attending a New York City public high school, and his single father, a professional pickpocket living in a childish movie world of carpe diem. Unlike most youth-oriented books about gay ...

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