Edinburgh: A Novel

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Macmillan, Nov 9, 2002 - Fiction - 224 pages

Twelve-year-old Fee is a gifted Korean-American soprano in a boys' choir in Maine whose choir director reveals himself to be a serial pedophile. Fee and his friends are forced to bear grief, shame, and pain that endure long after the director is imprisoned. Fee survives even as his friends do not, but a deep-seated horror and dread accompany him through his self-destructive college days and after, until the day he meets a beautiful young student named Warden and is forced to confront the demons of his brutal past.

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Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
7
Section 3
30
Section 4
41
Section 5
47
Section 6
73
Section 7
78
Section 8
93
Section 11
123
Section 12
125
Section 13
147
Section 14
171
Section 15
192
Section 16
205
Section 17
207
Section 18
211

Section 9
100
Section 10
113
Section 19
Copyright

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About the author (2002)

Alexander Chee's work has appeared in Interview, Big, Out, and in the anthologies Boys Like Us, Loss Within Loss, Men on Men 2000, and His 3. He is the author of the books Edinburgh and Queen of the Night. He teaches at the New School.

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