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Article: Dream Boy.
- Article from:
- Chicago Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
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Jim Grimsley. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1995.
Perhaps the worst thing about Jim Grimsley's second novel, Dream Boy, is its title. It's cheaply erotic, smacking of an easy double entendre, and suggests none of the poetically tender and startlingly original story that follows.
The novel is about shy and small-boned Nathan, who has just moved into a farmhouse in the old Kennicutt Woods with his parents. Across a small field live their landlords, whose son, Roy, has a bedroom window that faces Nathan's. After a few weeks, Nathan develops a crush on Roy, and who can blame him? Roy has enough charm and sloe-eyed good looks to play the fabled boy next door, the ...
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