Getting Off Clean

by Timothy Murphy, Timothy Murphy, Tim Murphy

Book Overview

The one thing that Eric Fitzpatrick wants is to escape--both from his family and the racially tense town in which he lives. The only son of an Italian-Irish family in a working class suburb of boston,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312151322
• ISBN13: 9780312151324
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Breathtaking

A wonderful novel. Sexy, very dense, even dramatic whithout ever becoming sentimental. it is one of the best!

Read this book and learn!

When gay men are mentioned, do you think of cross dressers? Read the book. Do you think it's easy to be a high school senior? Read the book. Have you ever had times when you think your family is going to kill you? Read the book. Do you want an smart, sexy, and touching novel? READ THIS BOOK NOW!

Incredibly touching. My favorite book ever.

I think this had to be the most touching book I have ever read. I've read it several times and I always end up in tears by the end.Although I've never been in a similar situation, I easily identified with the main character, Eric. So much of the turmoil and confusion I remember from growing up was reflected in him. Every time I read this book, I wish I could make Eric make different choices, but I suspect I would have done the same thing in his place. That is what makes this novel so real.I would highly recommend this wonderful book for everyone.

Ain't nothing but a gay thang

There were times when all we wanted to do was get away, to dump our stinky life and begin a new one. Eric Fitzpatrick longs for it and his way through is his application to Yale. But someone would appear, that someone who would carry Eric along a sorted journey of tribulations and hard times, as well as a new kind of feeling that the protagonist had been denying all along: his awakening sexuality. Brooks will be from the very start the departing point from his everyday life. The carrier of the unusual and unexpected. Staged on a small town in Massachusetts, "Getting off clean" not only explores the sensation of acknowledging one's homosexuality but also the stirring of sharing an unequal turbulent relationship. Murphy evokes wonderfully "young love" and showers it with a freshness and tenderness making it all the more cherishable and lovable. Definitely, simplicity is also a quality that the book has, framing a tale that calls for reason; a story that shares many things that we all have and went through, and a book that owns one of those daring ends that makes you feel that this volume was worth reading.