Author : Bradley Butterfield
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781514343449
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (434 download)
Book Synopsis Idiot Boys: a Memoir by : Bradley Butterfield
Download or read book Idiot Boys: a Memoir written by Bradley Butterfield and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-14 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In telling the story of his own accidental "coming of age," English professor Bradley Butterfield tells the stories of a whole cast of lovable, if fallible, characters from his childhood and of the Denver he grew up in from the dawn of disco to the Reagan era. IDIOT BOYS is a relentlessly funny, heartbreakingly sad, and ultimately philosophical look at the particular idiocy of boys and the universal stupidity of man. Each chapter, or "Exhibit," represents a rough archetype of idiot boy behavior and a stage in young Butterfield's quixotic quest to figure himself out and become the hero of his own movie. Butterfield's narration meanders between every phase of his youth, from pre-school to his first semester in college, but there turns out to be a method in this seeming madness as it builds to a gut-wrenching climax involving repressed memories surrounding his mother's death and the inevitable dissolution of those childhood friendships he thought would last forever.