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The Short History of a Prince: A Novel (edition 1999)

by Jane Hamilton

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A young man looks back on his adolescence to when he was 15, a year in which he discovered a passion for another boy, and when his brother was dying of an insidious illness. This is a story of family relationships, the pain and insecurity of adolescence, friendship, love and fate.
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Title:The Short History of a Prince: A Novel
Authors:Jane Hamilton
Info:Anchor (1999), Edition: 6th, Paperback, 349 pages
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I loved this book. That is all. ( )
  Jinjer | Jul 19, 2021 |
A beautiful coming of age story. ( )
  Chrissylou62 | Aug 1, 2020 |
I Loved Jane Hamilton's "A Map of the World" but I just couldn't get into the characters in this novel and made a rare decision to stop reading after the first few chapters. ( )
  Eye_Gee | May 8, 2017 |
(NOTE: Apparently I never wrote a review of this book ... though I remember reading it for book club ... I may have to re-read it) ( )
  BookConcierge | Mar 5, 2016 |
Wonderful. A gay man tells of his childhood when his brother died, his friendships, and how current life brings them back. ( )
  juniperSun | Dec 6, 2014 |
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This book as far as I can see- went absulutely nowhere.
Jane Hamilton's writing is positively irritating. You have no idea how hard I tried to actually care about any of her character. They just were not believable . And she- Jane Hamilton keeps going on and on and on and on.
Somewhere around page 200 I finally detected a hint- a vague HINT of a PLOT- but hell- she's got no time for anything that mundane. OHH NO-her characters are so shallow and her writing is so superficial and yet she goes on.... and on... and on.
By thetime I got to the end I truly felt like a record needle that slides right across the record because in this case there ain't nothing very good to listen to.
BORING. PRETENTIOUS< and RUN AT THE MOUTH.
and so it goes.
Judy Mann
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A young man looks back on his adolescence to when he was 15, a year in which he discovered a passion for another boy, and when his brother was dying of an insidious illness. This is a story of family relationships, the pain and insecurity of adolescence, friendship, love and fate.

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