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Lambda Literary Award Finalist A New York Times Book Review Editors'' Choice
Named a best book of 2019 by Parade

The Light Years is a joyous and defiant coming-of-age memoir set during one of the most turbulent times in American history

This stunningly beautiful, original memoir is driven by a search for the divine, a quest that leads Rush into some dangerous places . . . The Light Years is funny, harrowing, and deeply tender. Kate Tuttle, The L.A. Times

Rush is a fantastically vivid writer, whether he's remembering a New Jersey of ''meatballs and Windex and hairspray'' or the dappled, dangerous beauty of Northern California, where ''rock stars lurked like lemurs in the trees.'' Read if you loved Just Kids by Patti Smith. Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly

As mythic and wild with love, possibility, and danger as the decades it spans, you'll r

The Light Years

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    A Paperback by Chris Rush

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      Publisher Picador
      Published 1/24/2020 12:03:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9781250251190
      978-1250251190
      ISBN-10 1250251192
      Also in:
      Individual architects Autobiography: general

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Lambda Literary Award Finalist A New York Times Book Review Editors'' Choice
      Named a best book of 2019 by Parade

      The Light Years is a joyous and defiant coming-of-age memoir set during one of the most turbulent times in American history

      This stunningly beautiful, original memoir is driven by a search for the divine, a quest that leads Rush into some dangerous places . . . The Light Years is funny, harrowing, and deeply tender. Kate Tuttle, The L.A. Times

      Rush is a fantastically vivid writer, whether he's remembering a New Jersey of ''meatballs and Windex and hairspray'' or the dappled, dangerous beauty of Northern California, where ''rock stars lurked like lemurs in the trees.'' Read if you loved Just Kids by Patti Smith. Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly

      As mythic and wild with love, possibility, and danger as the decades it spans, you'll r

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