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Girl boy girl [electronic resource] : how I became JT LeRoy / Savannah Knoop.
The JT LeRoy scandal is a story of our times. In January 2006, the New York Times unmasked Savannah Knoop as the face of the mysterious author JT LeRoy. A media frenzy ensued as JT's fans, mentors, and readers came to terms with the fact that the gay-male-ex-truck-stop-prostitute-turned literary-wunderkind was really a girl from San Francisco, whose sister-in-law wrote the books. Girl Boy Girl is the story of how Savannah Knoop led this bizarre double life for six years, trading a precarious existence as a college dropout for a life in which she was embraced by celebrities and artists-Carrie Fisher, Courtney Love, Mary Ellen Mark, Winona Ryder, Asia Argento, Sharon Olds, Gus Van Sant, Mike Pitt, Calvin Klein, and Shirley Manson, to name a few-and traveled the world. Telling her side of the story for the first time, Savannah reveals how being perceived as a boy gave her a sense of confidence and entitlement she never had before. Her love affair with Asia Argento is particularly wrenching, as they embark on an intimate relationship that causes more alienation than closeness. As Savannah and Laura struggle over control of the JT character, Savannah realizes the limits of the game - - and inadvertently finds herself through the adventure of being someone else.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781501991820
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (5 hr., 48 min.)
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books ; 2018, p2018.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from title screen. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | Access restricted to subscribing institutions. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Narrated by Kristen Stewart. |
Additional Physical Form available Note: | Downloadable applications available for access via iOS 4.0+ devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) and Android 2.1+ devices. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. Requires RBdigital Media Manager. System requirements: 200 MB of free disk space, 512 MB of RAM, Windows Installer 3.1, Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (x86 and x64), Windows Media Player 10 QA. |
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Subject: | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures. |
Genre: | Downloadable audio books. Audiobooks. |