Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT Leroy by Knoop, Savannah

Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT Leroy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781609808419)

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Format: Paperback
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Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT Leroy by Knoop, Savannah

Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT Leroy

$16.95
Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT Leroy by Knoop, Savannah

Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT Leroy

$16.95
Format: Paperback
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When Savannah Knoop was unmasked as the face of the mysterious author JT LeRoy in 2005, one of the biggest literary hoaxes of the modern era was revealed. Girl Boy Girl tells the story of how a young, queer college drop out came to portray the literary wunderkind JT LeRoy, a persona created by Knoop's sister-in-law. For six years, Knoop led a secret double life, traveling through the looking glass of celebrity to find liberation and alienation in equal measures. Knoop's entanglement with JT and his creator was a game played at the very limits of self-expression, one that changed Knoop's sense of self forever. This edition includes a new foreword by the author reflecting on the continued life of the JT LeRoy story in the "post-truth" era.

Author: Savannah Knoop
ISBN-10: 160980841X
ISBN-13: 9781609808419
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Language: English
Published: 04/23/2019
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.40w x 0.80d
By Savannah Knoop
By Savannah Knoop
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Savannah Knoop is a New York-based artist, writer, and filmmaker who has performed and exhibited at venues such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. They adapted their memoir Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT Leroy into a feature-length film, co-written and directed by Justin Kelly, and starring Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Jim Sturgess, and Diane Kruger. Girl Boy Girl is their first book.

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