Justin Torres's 2011 debut novel We the Animals performs Puerto Rican queer masculinity at the precise moment when the first formal challenges to the Defense.
ISBN : 9780788018091
Genre : Children and animals
File Size : 27.67 MB
Format : PDF, ePub, Mobi
Download : 219
Read : 1075
- DOWNLOAD EPUB. We the Animals. We the Animals. We the Animals. Agriculture: The Food We Grow and Animals We Raise (Natural Resources) Read more.
- That they should all meet in the big barn as soon as Mr. Jones was safely out of. When they tell you that Man and the animals have a common interest, that the.
This book brings busy pastors and teachers more children's sermons and activity pages from the popular pen of Julia Bland. They're intended to help children learn that Jesus is their Lord and develop Christian character through attention-getting pictures and rhyming words. Like all of her other CSS works, these lessons come with 2-sided activity pages that are appropriate both for younger and older children. | Author | Justin Torres |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | fiction |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Sept. 2, 2011 | |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 144 |
| ISBN | 978-0-547-57672-5 |
We the Animals (2011) is the debut novel by the American author Justin Torres. It is a bildungsroman about three wild brothers of white and Puerto Rican parentage who live a rough and tumble childhood in rural upstate New York during the 1980s. The youngest brother, who is the protagonist, eventually breaks away from the rest of the family.[1]
The novel is semi-autobiographical and is loosely based on Torres's own life growing up in up-state New York.[2]
Plot[edit]
The young, unnamed narrator, a boy, grows up in a tight-knit family with two older brothers, Manny and Joel. His parents, who were teenagers when the boys were conceived and they married, have an abusive unhappy marriage but still feel love for each other.
In a series of vignettes, the narrator describes how his parents struggle to keep the family afloat and how his father, and eventually his brothers, are abusive towards his mother who is deeply unhappy and longs for a better life.
As the narrator grows up, he senses a difference between himself and his brothers, which is partially caused by his love of literature and partially caused by the fact that he is gay. After his parents discover his journal, which is filled with erotic imaginings and fantasies, the narrator lashes out, violently attacking his parents and sibling, after which he is interred at a psychiatric ward.
Reception[edit]
We the Animals received generally positive reviews, including warm notices from The New York Times and Kirkus Reviews[3][4] and praise from such novelists and writers as Michael Cunningham, Dorothy Allison and Paul Harding.[5] It was nominated for a Publishing Triangle Award, an NAACP Image Award, and it won an Indies Choice Book Award.
Film adaptation[edit]
A film adaptation of We the Animals, directed by Jeremiah Zagar, premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.[6]
References[edit]
- ^'We the Animals'. Amazon.com. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
- ^Ortiz, Sara. 'INTERVIEW: Justin Torres, author of 'We the Animals''. Retrieved 6 February 2016.
- ^'We the Animals'. Kirkus Reviews. 20 July 2011. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
- ^Isherwood, Charles (1 September 2011). 'Grasping the Secrets of Being an Adult'. The New York Times. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
- ^'We the Animals'. Powell's Books. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
- ^Rooney, David (January 20, 2018). ''We the Animals': Film Review'. The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 28, 2018.