Flamboyant: A Novel

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Macmillan, 1999 M10 29 - 256 pages

When Chana Landau begins her job as a teacher at Harvey Milk High School, she leaves the protection of her traditional Orthodox Jewish enclave in Brooklyn for a school that embodies everything she has been forbidden to experience. In a hostile classroom filled with sexually "different" teens, street kids, and drug addicts, Chana's one support is Flamboyant, a fifteen-year-old prostitute and an accomplished writer. Flamboyant is an unforgettable novel of cultural difference, friendship, and faith.

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JOURNAL ENTRÉE 1
1
AUGUST 22 OR SO A THURSDAY?
13
IN THE AUGUST VEIN
43
AUGUST 29TH
71
A SATURDAY IN NEW YORK AT THE END OF AUGUST
85
SEPTEMBER 3RDISH
101
2ND WEEK OF SEPTEMBER
137
SEPTEMBER CONTINUES
159
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 16TH
179
OCTOBER 23RD OR WHO CARES?
191
OCTOBER 27TH OR 28TH NEAR HOLLOWED EVE
199
BACK TIME AUGUST OR SEPTEMBER TIME
211
WHATEVER
219
THOSE LAZY CRAZY DAYS OF OCTOBER
229
THE HERE AND NOW
241
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About the author (1999)

Elizabeth Swados is an Obie Award-winning playwright and a novelist. Her novels include Leah and Lazar and The Myth Man. She is also the author of a memoir, entitled The Four of Us. She lives in New York.

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