{"product_id":"100-boyfriends-paperback","title":"100 Boyfriends - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBrontez Purnell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2022 Lambda Literary Award in Gay Fiction. A \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003eEditors' Choice. Longlisted for the 2022 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award and the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize. One of \u003ci\u003eBuzzfeed\u003c\/i\u003e's Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2021, NBC's 10 Most Notable LGBTQ Books of 2021, and \u003ci\u003ePink News\u003c\/i\u003e' Best LGBTQ Books of 2021. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This hurricane of delirious, lonely, lewd tales is a taxonomy and grand unified theory of the boyfriend, in every tense.\" \u003c\/b\u003e--\u003cb\u003eParul Sehgal, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I loved this book\u003c\/b\u003e--\u003cb\u003eraunchy, irreverent, deliberate, sexy, angry, and tender, in its own way.\" \u003c\/b\u003e--\u003cb\u003eRoxane Gay\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn irrerverent, sensitive, and inimitable look at gay dysfunction through the eyes of a cult hero \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTransgressive, foulmouthed, and brutally funny, Brontez Purnell's \u003ci\u003e100 Boyfriends\u003c\/i\u003e is a revelatory spiral into the imperfect lives of queer men desperately fighting the urge to self-sabotage. As they tiptoe through minefields of romantic, substance-fueled misadventure--from dirty warehouses and gentrified bars in Oakland to desolate farm towns in Alabama--Purnell's characters strive for belonging in a world that dismisses them for being Black, broke, and queer. In spite of it--or perhaps because of it--they shine. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eArmed with a deadpan wit, Purnell finds humor in even the darkest of nadirs with the peerless zeal, insight, and horniness of a gay punk messiah. Together, the slice-of-life tales that writhe within \u003ci\u003e100 Boyfriends\u003c\/i\u003e are an inimitable tour of an unexposed queer underbelly. Holding them together is the vision of an iconoclastic storyteller, as fearless as he is human.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrontez Purnell is the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003e100 Boyfriends\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 2022 Lambda Literary Award in Gay Fiction, was longlisted for the 2022 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award and the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize, and was named an Editors' Choice by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e. The recipient of a 2018 Whiting Writers' Award for Fiction and the 2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Robert Rauschenberg Award, he was named one of the thirty-two Black Male Writers of Our Time by \u003ci\u003eT: The New York Times Style Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e in 2018. Purnell is also the frontman for the band the Younger Lovers, a cofounder of the experimental dance group the Brontez Purnell Dance Company, the creator of the renowned cult zine \u003ci\u003eFag School\u003c\/i\u003e, and the director of several short films, music videos, and the documentary \u003ci\u003eUnstoppable Feat: The Dances of Ed Mock\u003c\/i\u003e. Born in Triana, Alabama, he's lived in Oakland, California, for two decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.5 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 02, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44316974350438,"sku":"9780374538989","price":25.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/YjdQOUhuQmh1b3YyMGhTM1dhVDYwdz09.webp?v=1767999054","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/100-boyfriends-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}