Breakfast With Scot
Sam and Ed live the high life, and see no reason to add to their happy twosome. Then 11-year-old Scot’s mother dies, and a wine-soaked promise pushes the couple into parenthood. They dutifully make all the usual arrangements, but Scot is far from usual, sporting makeup and enduring bullying at...
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Sam and Ed live the high life, and see no reason to add to their happy twosome. Then 11-year-old Scot’s mother dies, and a wine-soaked promise pushes the couple into parenthood. They dutifully make all the usual arrangements, but Scot is far from usual, sporting makeup and enduring bullying at school. Soon Sam and Ed begin to question their parenting, their commitment to each other, and the compromises they’ve made to live in a straight society. Breakfast with Scot is a humorous, heartwarming novel about the true meaning of family.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781582430270 (1582430276)
Publish date: November 1st 1999
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
If this book were a painting, there would be large greyed-out spaces on the canvas, filled with the absence of something. And I don't mean this in an admiring sense of artistic integrity. I mean it as a comment on someone who just can't be arsed to finish the damn work. Because of this, and what rea...
A really lovely little piece of a book. I was struggling to find something that would set this August and this proved to be the ticket. I've seen the movie made from it - it was on Movie Central last month - and it didn't manage to catch the tone of the book, but I still enjoyed it.
Scot turns their lives upside down in much the way that a naughty dog would. You kind of cringe even as you laugh at three guys becoming a family.
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