The Trouble Boy: A Novel

By Tom Dolby

Book Overview

At 22, Toby Griffin wants it all - fame, fortune and a good-looking boyfriend by his side. For now, he's got a freelance job for an online magazine, a sublet in the East Village and a group of friends with a taste for fashion, booze and other men. But everything changes when Toby suddenly gets the chance of a lifetime, working as a personal assistant to a hip film mogul. Now he's swilling champagne with the best of them, but he still feels that making it in Manhattan isn't as easy as he thought - until one tragic night changes his life and gives him power he had never dreamt of.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 075820616X
• ISBN13: 9780758206169
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

sparkling!

Just finished Tom's book and I have to say it was very enjoyable. It's packed with vivid images that brought sights, sounds and smells to me during the read. I loved how he spun a tale that stayed true to its theme throughout - it flowed very well. What I enjoyed the most was how he wrapped everything at the end. Unlike some books, I felt it allowed me to create my own illusions for what the future held for Toby and completely...

Shattering a Myth

Dolby. Tom, "The Trouble Boy", Kensington, 2004. Shattering a Myth Amos Lassen After reading Tom Dolby's new book , "The Sixth Form" due to be released in January 2008, I went back to reread the novel "The Trouble Boy" which he wrote in 2004. I am firmly convinced that Dolby is an author to watch. The two books are monuments in gay literature as Dolby manages to blend fact with fiction and give us a picture of how we live...

Promising Debut Novel

Looking only at the inside flap of the book (come on, we're gay, we do it) it's hard to imagine that a strikingly handsome author of Dolby descent would be able to write a novel about being (or perceiving oneself as being) .. well, average, insecure and confused as to one's place in the world.Actually READING the book, though, you find that his main character is all of those things. Cute and young enough to possibly make...

Take the Trouble to Read This Book

This riveting first novel takes an unapologetic look at the first post-Yale year in the life of cute twenty two year old Toby Griffin, an insecure gay man dealing with the pressures and demands of big city existence. Success in ?The Big Apple? is the goal here, and upon graduation, Toby joins the rest of the migrating Ivy League masses determined to find it. Toby, a child of privilege originally from San Francisco, is a struggling...

A REALLY SOLID DEBUT

Stumbled upon it, didn't know anything about it, but ended up devouring it in one night. Exciting, well-paced, frequently clever. Looking forward to more from the author.