by J. T. Leroy · Fazi · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788881123872
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«La fine di Harold» is the long short story by J. T. Leroy, published by Fazi Editore in paperback (89 pages, in Italian with facing English text).
On Polk Street, San Francisco, everyone has a pet except the narrator, proud of his solitude. Larry, a stranger, gives him Harold, a snail descended from nineteenth-century French escargots. Caring for it awakens in the boy an unsuspected tenderness that sustains him against the violence and abuse of his surroundings.
Original English title: Harold's End. The story first appeared in McSweeney's magazine; this edition includes the Italian translation by Martina Testa and the facing English text.
Will appeal to readers of queer fiction and to those wishing to approach the figure of J. T. LeRoy and stories about adolescence and marginalization.
Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy, or simply JT LeRoy, is a literary persona created in the 1990s by American writer Laura Albert. LeRoy was presented as the author of three books of fiction, which were purportedly semi-autobiographical accounts by a teenage boy of his experiences of poverty, drug use, and emotional and sexual abuse in his childhood and adolescence from rural West Virginia to California. Albert wrote these works, and communicated with people in the persona of LeRoy via phone and e-mail. Following the release of the first novel Sarah, Albert's sibling-in-law Savannah Knoop began to make public appearances as the supposed writer. The works attracted considerable literary and celebrity attention, and the authenticity of LeRoy has been a subject of debate, even as details of the creation came to light in the 2000s.
