100 Boyfriends
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Transgressive, foulmouthed, and wildly funny, Brontez Purnell's 100 Boyfriends is a filthy, unforgettable, and brutally profound ode to queer love in its most messy of variations. From one-night stands to recurring lovers, Purnell's characters sleep with their co-worker's husbands, expose themselves to racist neighbours, date Satanists, and drink their way out of trouble, all the while fighting - and often losing - the urge to self-sabotage. A horny, punk love song full of imperfect intimacies, 100 Boyfriends takes readers on a riotous journey through dirty warehouses and gentrified bars, from dysfunctional houseshares to desolate farming towns in Alabama. Drawing us into a community of glorious misfits living on the margins of a white supremacist, heteronormative society, iconoclastic storyteller Brontez Purnell gives us an uncompromising vision of desire, desperation, race, loneliness, and queerness that will devastate as much as it entertains.
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This stunning collection of vignettes from artist, punk rocker, and Whiting Award winner Purnell (Since I Laid My Burden Down) forms a delightfully crass, kaleidoscopic worldview. Each story introduces new heartbreaks and reminders that moments of intimacy often end in loneliness. In "Boyfriend #666/The Satanist" the narrator describes disappointing sex with a man referred to as "Trench Coat Mafia dick." In "Boyfriend #4/4/The Drummer" the narrator tenderly asks, "What else is a boyfriend for but to share in mutual epiphany?" Whether falling apart during a punk band's tour of Europe ("Do They Exist If No One's Watching?"), searching for sex in rural Alabama ("Hooker Boys (Part Two)"), or sifting through a wealthy man's drug stash in Hell's Kitchen ("Boyfriend #100/The