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Title	:	Boulevard
Author	:	Jim Grimsley
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 304 pages
Published	:	May 2nd 2003 by Algonquin Books (first published April 19th 2002)
Categories	:	LGBT. Gay. GLBT. Queer. Gay Fiction. Fiction

Boulevard

Jim Grimsley

Paperback | Pages: 304 pages

Rating: 3.33 | 224 Users | 29 Reviews

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Newell never really belonged in Pastel, Alabama. Ready for a change, he buys a one-way ticket to New Orleans. The year is 1978 and the rambunctious city beckons with its famous promise of bright lights, excitement, and men everywhere. Newell makes his way, finding a job in a pornographic bookstore and renting a room in the French Quarter. His good nature, good looks, and a daring stunt in a popular bar make him a quick favorite of the town. Soon he has friends. Some are harmless, like Henry, a pudgy sidekick who's a frequent denizen of the porn shop's movie booths. Others prove more dangerous, like party-boy Mark, Newell's first beau, who has a penchant for recreational drugs. Finally, Newell encounters the volatile Jack, who shows Newell the blackest heart of the city.

Boulevard, Jim Grimsley's fifth novel, reminds us that Grimsley is what Publishers Weekly calls "an accomplished stylist and a complex moralist." He takes one character's dream and reveals what can happen when dreams are fulfilled.

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Original Title:	Boulevard
ISBN:	1565124006 (ISBN13: 9781565124004)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 3.33 From 224 Users | 29 Reviews

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BOULEVARD: Mr. G's New Orleans the 'hood' novel. For pages after pages his unconflicted main character was dragged through over cloned and boring vignettes of pre-AIDS heaven New Orleans life style.The story line and it's writing was not impressive, basically I could not wait to finish this book and get it over with.Probably it was Mr. Grimsley's own play ground back in his days. He might had known these types of characters and related to them, but he should have just kept them to himself.

Grimsley is one of the best. Newell travels to New Orleans from a small southern town and quickly acclimates to the gay culture. I have to agree with an earlier reviewer that the setting of New Orleans overpowers the story line. Maybe he planned it that way? This is a dark novel.

BOULEVARD: Mr. G's New Orleans the 'hood' novel. For pages after pages his unconflicted main character was dragged through over cloned and boring vignettes of pre-AIDS heaven New Orleans life style.The story line and it's writing was not impressive, basically I could not wait to finish this book and get it over with.Probably it was Mr. Grimsley's own play ground back in his days. He might had known these types of characters and related to them, but he should have just kept them to himself.

Jim Grimsley is a playwright and novelist. Jim's first novel, Winter Birds, was published by Algonquin Books in 1994. The novel won the 1995 Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and received a special citation from the Ernest Hemingway Foundation. Jim's second novel, Dream Boy, won the American Library Association GLBT Award for Literature (the

This book is a very good book about some of the charecters that live in New Orleans.Jim lived here during his college years and has a real feeling for this city. He lives in Mississippi now I believe. He attends the Saints and Sinners in New Orleans on a regular basis and is a very interesting person. He could have added even more bizarre charecters but did a good job.

I found this book really compelling. I don't know that i would say that i enjoyed it, because i spent a lot of time feeling so sad for several of the characters, but the writing was evocative, beautiful and startling and grotesque and languid and i'm very glad that i read it. Caveat: you best be down for some graphic sex and some BDSM stuff if you pick this one up. If you can't handle reading the details of such scenes, you won't make it through this book.

This is the last book by Jim Grimsley I will read. It was boring, boring, boring. The plot was boring, the characters were boring, the sex was boring. It was completely depressing and had not one bit of up-beat action or even one interesting character. The protagonist, a teenage boy named Newell, with whom I assume Grimsley wants his readers to empathize, was a hopelessly naive teenage kid from some backwater place in Alabama. It took the first 137 pages before he realized he really, really was