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Pee-shy / Frank Spinelli.
LIBRA HV6570.3.N7 S65 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spinelli, Frank, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spinelli, Frank.
- Abused children--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Abused children.
- Gay men--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Gay men.
- Physicians--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Physicians.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 344 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Kensington Books, [2014]
- Summary:
- In his stunningly honest and poignant memoir, Frank Spinelli recounts a childhood marked by trauma and of finding the courage that ultimately transformed his life ... Frank Spinelli grew up on Staten Island in the 1970s to Italian-born parents who viewed cops and priests as second only to the Pope in infallibility. His mother, concerned that her son was being bullied at school for being "different," signed Frank up for Boy Scouts when he turned eleven. For the next two years, Frank's life had two realities--one lived in full view of his family, and the other a secret he shared with his Scoutmaster that he couldn't confess to anybody. Eventually Frank went to college, established a thriving medical practice, and found a home in Manhattan. But the emotional and physical effects of his past continued to shadow every aspect of his life. Then a shocking discovery gave Frank the opportunity to overturn thirty years of confusion and self-blame--for himself, and for other boys like him. Pee-Shy is a remarkable story of overcoming the unimaginable to choose resilience over darkness, and love over loss.
- Contents:
- Prologue
- Part one : Careful what you wish for
- An old fixer-upper
- Kitten tartare
- Second time's the charm
- Confessions of a priest stalker
- the cop and the kid
- The blame game
- Out like a Lyon
- Airplane jeopardy
- Wheels are in motion
- Something you should know
- Sunday dinner
- Part two : Evel Knieval versus Bily the Kid
- Charmed by a Fox
- A boy like me
- Camp creeps
- Look me in the eyes
- Boy bonding
- Making Tenderfoot
- Becoming a monster
- Sleaze torso
- Beyond betrayal
- Where nobody dared to go
- Part three : Taking the plunge
- Choo-Choo Charlie
- Altitude sickness
- Alaska in Colorado
- Live for right now
- Autumn perspective
- Hunting rabbits
- The mirror cracked
- Home for the holidays
- Just the way they are
- Fade to black
- Stroke in evolution
- vertically challenged
- Surprise witness
- Epilogue : Beverly Glass.
- Local Notes:
- Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.
- ISBN:
- 9780758291325
- 0758291329
- OCLC:
- 864788231
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