Freaks and revelations : a novel / by Davida Wills Hurwin.

Author: Hurwin, Davida, 1950-

Edition: 1st ed.

Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2009.

ISBN: 9780316049962
0316049964

Description: 234 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject: Hate Juvenile fiction.
Prejudices Juvenile fiction.
Homosexuality Juvenile fiction.
Punk culture Juvenile fiction.
Problem families Juvenile fiction.
Drug abuse Juvenile fiction.
Hate Fiction.
Prejudices Fiction.
Homosexuality Fiction.
Punk culture Fiction.
Family problems Fiction.
Drug abuse Fiction.
California History 20th century Juvenile fiction.
California History 20th century Fiction.

Target Audience: 012-017.

Notes: "Inspired by real events in the lives of Matthew Boger and Tim Zaal."

Summary: Tells, in two voices, of events leading up to a 1980 incident in which fourteen-year-old Jason, a gay youth surviving on the streets as a prostitute, and seventeen-year-old Doug, a hate-filled punk rocker, have a fateful meeting in a Los Angeles alley.