{"product_id":"king-of-angels-a-novel-perry-brass-9781892149145","title":"King of Angels, a Novel about the Genesis of Identity and Belief","description":"King of Angels is the coming-of-age story of Benjamin Rothberg, a 12-year-old master of \"shape-shifting,\" of changing identities while steadfastly grasping the unique features of his own. The child of a marriage between a handsome Northern Jewish father and a classic-WASP-beauty Southern mother, Benjamin must change identities from Jewish to none-Jewish, from being a smart, precocious self-aware kid to masquerading and \"passing\" as a \"regular guy\" boy, from growing into a sexually curious (and possibly gay) young man to experiencing a fragile adolescent innocence, almost in love with a pretty girl. Set in Savannah, Georgia, during the tumultuous Kennedy years, King of Angels explores the role of Southern Jews in the still-segregated South, the explosive race relations and racial consciousness of this era, and the emergence of a genuine gay community with its own honest, outsider viewpoint. It is also a realistic story of the underground world of boys who must fool their parents and each other in order to achieve any form of unguarded closeness. As a \"half-Jew\" attending Holy Nativity, a Catholic military school in Savannah, Benjy also becomes aware of many forms of seduction and attraction: the seductions of a secret sexual life in the school, the seductions of his own heart taken with a handsome Puerto Rican male student, and the attractions of the Spirit in all of its revealed forms. This is a novel about the genesis of identity and belief itself, in a questioning heart and questioning time, while growing up in the changing South in the early 1960s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Perry Brass\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1892149141\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781892149145\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Belhue Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/20\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 378\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.84d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Independent Publisher Book Awards - Bronze Medal Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Triangle Awards - Finalist","brand":"Perry Brass","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48519584973055,"sku":"9781892149145","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_06ffadaa-82cd-4b32-a9dd-c7e5e753b0d4.jpg?v=1778737783","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/king-of-angels-a-novel-perry-brass-9781892149145","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}