This new edition includes an introduction by award-winning writer Michael Nava, and a new afterword by Blackbird's film director Patrik-Ian Polk. This novel of adolescent awakening is as fresh and heartfelt as it was when first published.Ī film version of Blackbird, starring Academy Award winner Mo'Nique, Isaiah Washington, and Julian Walker, was released in theatres and on VOD in 2015.Īrsenal first reissued Blackbird in 2006 under its Little Sister's Classics imprint. He is best known for his novels Blackbird, adapted in 2014 by Patrik-Ian Polk as a film starring MoNique and. All the while, he's intrigued by Marshall MacNeill, whom he meets at an audition, surely the sexiest man to walk God's green earth-at least according to Johnnie Ray. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. As if that weren't enough, his best friend has been beaten badly by his father, and his girlfriend is pressuring him to have sex for the first time. Buy (Blackbird) By (author) Larry Duplechan August, 2006 by Larry Duplechan (ISBN: ) from Amazons Book Store. Johnnie Ray Rousseau is a high school student upset over losing the lead role in the school staging of Romeo and Juliet. New edition of this important YA novel coinciding with the new film starring Mo'Nique.įirst published in 1986, Blackbird is a funny, moving, coming-of-age novel about growing up black and gay.
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