Johnny Golightly Comes Home (Inscribed by Author) | Pat Hopkins

Subtitle: A Portrait of Eccentricity

Author: Pat Hopkins

Publisher: Penquin (2009)

ISBN-10: 0143025546

ISBN-13: 9780143025542

Condition: Very Good. Light rubbing and edgewear to the covers. Text is clean, and copy is well bound.

Binding: Softcover

Pages: 234

Dimensions: 23.3 x 15.4 x 2 cm

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by Pat Hopkins

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"For years I'd been struggling with an identity crisis", says the slight, immaculately dressed Boerma as he plunges a fork into a slice of carrot cake topped with a blob of cream and a pink bougainvillaea petal. "My mother was English, my father Dutch; I was gay, while the Nelspruit community I grew up in was macho; I had fabulous visions of Parisian glamour, but I lived in Hicksville; and I had privilege, while my black friends were oppressed".

Pat Hopkins tells the story of this eccentric man in a personal story that at times becomes intertwined with his own story. The result is a very personal and intriguing memoir of a writer describing an artist who leads him on a dance of discovery.