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Each page seems somehow even more riveting and moving than the last. If you want the skinny--I mean, the real skinny--about growing up in a male body in this country it's time you read this deeply compelling and eminently wise new book. -- David St. John, author of The Last Troubadour Here's the skinny on The Skinny. Wells has written a memoir that's lean without being gaunt, rawboned without being fleshless. It's an elegant work of curving contours and sharp-edged insight that captures a world long gone. -- Allen Kurzweil, author of Whipping Boy In precise and poetic prose, Jonathan Wells explores the intersection of wealth, sexuality, and body image. -- Adrienne Brodeur, author of Wild Game Jonathan Wells has written a harrowing memoir about growing up severely underweight, about surviving sexual abuse by a schoolmaster--and about his tyrannical father's determination to transform his son's body into his own ideal of masculinity. -- Betsy Bonner, author of The Book of Atlantis Black Layer by layer, Jonathan Wells unravels the father-son knot in ways both troubling and uplifting. I was gripped by The Skinny, a remarkable portrait of the most tangled of relationships, written with a poet's eye and grace. -- Roger Cohen, author of The Girl from Human Street One of the most vulnerable memoirs I've ever read, Jonathan Wells's The Skinny is the story of surviving the long, brutal gauntlet toward manhood that many boys who grew up in the 1970s and '80s endured. An important cautionary tale. -- Bill Clegg, New York Times bestselling author

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"Jonathan Wells has published three poetry collections: Debris, Train Dance, and The Man with Many Pens. His poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Ploughshares, AGNI, the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series, and many other journals. The Skinny is his first book of prose. Arthur Morey has won three AudioFile Magazine ""Best Of"" Awards, and his work has garnered numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards and placed him as a finalist for two Audie Awards. He has acted in a number of productions, both off Broadway in New York and off Loop in Chicago. He graduated from Harvard and did graduate work at the University of Chicago. He has won awards for his fiction and drama, worked as an editor with several book publishers, and taught literature and writing at Northwestern University. His plays and songs have been produced in New York, Chicago, and Milan, where he has also performed."

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