Emmett de Monterey
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AN EXTRAORDINARILY MOVING AND ORIGINAL MEMOIR OF GROWING UP GAY AND DISABLED IN 1980S LONDONSHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2023 When Emmett de Monterey is eighteen months old, a doctor diagnoses him with cerebral palsy. Words too heavy for his twentyfiveyearold artist parents and their happy, smiling baby.Growing up in southeast London in the 1980s, Emmett is spat at on the street and prayed over at church. At his mainstream school, teachers refuse to schedule his classes on the ground floor, and he loses a stone from the effort of getting up the stairs. At his sixth form college for disabled students, hes told he will be expelled if the rumours are true, if hes gay.And then Emmett is chosen for a firstofitskind surgery in America which he hopes will cure him, enable him to walk unaided. He hopes for a miracle to walk, to dance, to be able to leave the house when it rains. To have a body thats everyday beautiful, to hold hands in the street. To not be gay, which feels like another word for loneliness. But the miracle doesnt occur, and Emmett must reckon with a world which views disabled people as invisible, unworthy of desire. He must fight to be seen.Vivid, engaging... this insightful memoir sheds light on the authors life as a disabled gay man who is often rendered invisible Andrew McMillan, Guardian Book of the DayA frank and intimate memoir written with an incredible cleareyed intensity Claire Fuller
Binding: Paperback;320 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: BM; Weight: 328 g; Dimensions: 195 x 130 x 20
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AN EXTRAORDINARILY MOVING AND ORIGINAL MEMOIR OF GROWING UP GAY AND DISABLED IN 1980S LONDONSHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2023 When Emmett de Monterey is eighteen months old, a doctor diagnoses him with cerebral palsy. Words too heavy for his twentyfiveyearold artist parents and their happy, smiling baby.Growing up in southeast London in the 1980s, Emmett is spat at on the street and prayed over at church. At his mainstream school, teachers refuse to schedule his classes on the ground floor, and he loses a stone from the effort of getting up the stairs. At his sixth form college for disabled students, hes told he will be expelled if the rumours are true, if hes gay.And then Emmett is chosen for a firstofitskind surgery in America which he hopes will cure him, enable him to walk unaided. He hopes for a miracle to walk, to dance, to be able to leave the house when it rains. To have a body thats everyday beautiful, to hold hands in the street. To not be gay, which feels like another word for loneliness. But the miracle doesnt occur, and Emmett must reckon with a world which views disabled people as invisible, unworthy of desire. He must fight to be seen.Vivid, engaging... this insightful memoir sheds light on the authors life as a disabled gay man who is often rendered invisible Andrew McMillan, Guardian Book of the DayA frank and intimate memoir written with an incredible cleareyed intensity Claire Fuller
Binding: Paperback;320 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: BM; Weight: 328 g; Dimensions: 195 x 130 x 20
Something not quite right? You have 21 days from the day you receive it, to send something back. When you purchase Debenhams Deliver+, you will have an extra 14 days on top of our standard 21-day window to initate a return.
Please note, we cannot offer refunds on fashion face masks, cosmetics, pierced jewellery, adult toys, and swimwear or lingerie if the hygiene seal is not in place or has been broken.
Items of footwear and/or clothing must be unworn and unwashed with the original labels attached. Also, footwear must be tried on indoors. Items of homeware including bedlinen, mattresses, and toppers, and pillows must be unused and in their original unopened packaging. This does not affect your statutory rights.
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Emmett de Monterey
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