{"first_publish_date": "2002", "subtitle": "a novel", "title": "Boulevard", "covers": [803290], "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Newell took his duffel down from the baggage rack, slung the strap over his shoulder, and climbed off the bus onto the pavement."}, "subject_places": ["New Orleans (La.)"], "lc_classifications": ["PS3557.R4949 B68 2002"], "key": "/works/OL29615W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL26617A"}}], "excerpts": [{"excerpt": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Newell took his duffel down from the baggage rack, slung the strap over his shoulder, and climbed off the bus onto the pavement."}, "page": "First sentence"}], "subjects": ["Bildungsromans", "Fiction", "Gay youth", "Fiction, gay", "Social life and customs", "Manners and customs", "Fiction, lgbtq+, gay", "Gay men, fiction", "New orleans (la.), fiction", "Louisiana, fiction"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "dewey_number": ["813/.54"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"Newell never really belonged in Pastel, Alabama. Ready for a change, he buys a one-way ticket to New Orleans. The year is 1976 and the rambunctious city beckons with its famous promise of bright lights, excitement, and men everywhere.\".\n\n\"Newell makes his way, finding a job in a pornographic bookstore and renting a room in the French Quarter. His good nature, good looks, and a daring stunt in a popular bar make him a quick favorite of the town. Soon he has friends. Some are harmless, like Henry, a pudgy sidekick who's a denizen of the porn shop's movie booths. Others prove more dangerous, like party-boy Mark, Newell's first beau, who has a penchant for recreational drugs.\n\nFinally, Newell encounters the volatile Jack, who shows him the darkest side of the city.\"--BOOK JACKET."}, "latest_revision": 12, "revision": 12, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-13T07:30:47.452303"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2023-11-15T01:30:10.043775"}}