About this title: In the world of his large family, affluent Tamils living in the capital of Sri Lanka, Arjie is an oddity - a "funny boy" - who likes dressing as a girl. Through his eyes, the reader watches him come to terms with his homosexuality and with the violent racism of the society in which he lives.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Jonathan Cape., London
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780224041300ISBN:0224041304
Description: First British and also the first hardcover edition. Originally published by McClelland & Stewart as a trade paperback. Author's first book. Jacket has some light scratching and rippling, very minor edge creasing. Fine/Very Good. read more
Publisher: William Morrow and Company, New York
Date Published: 1994
Description: 310p., uncorre. Gay novel by a Sri Lankan immigrant to Canada-and winner of both a Lambda Literary Award and a Books in Canada first novel award. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: William Morrow and Company, New York
Date Published: 1994
Description: 310p., first US printing, dj. Gay novel by a Sri Lankan immigrant to Canada-and winner of both a Lambda Literary Award and a Books in Canada first novel award. read more
Edition: First U.K. Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Jonathan Cape., London
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780224041300ISBN:0224041304
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Signed by Author A FINE copy of the FIRST U.K. edition. [mild tan to text edge as usual with this title.}. First printing. In FINE, unclipped jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780224041300ISBN:0224041304
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Signed by Author 1st printing of the first British hardcover edition of the author's first book SIGNED by Selvadurai on the title page. A square and tight copy with sharp corners. Tanning to page edges typical of UK publications. The jacket is crisp and price intact. A novel in six stories, Funny Boy won the Books In Canada First Novel Award. The author was born in Sri Lanka and lives in Toronto. The true first edition of this book is the Canadian, a trade paper original. ... read more
Edition: First British Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780224041300ISBN:0224041304
Description: Good in Good jacket. Signed by Author. First Impression. Authors signature to title page, some shelf-wear. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, a little wear to edge. 316pp. A novel in six stories. In the world of his large family, affluent Tamils living in Colombo, Arjie is an oddity, a 'funny boy' who prefers dressing as a girl to playing cricket with his older brother. In Funny Boy we follow the life of the family through Arjie's eyes as he struggles to come to terms both with his own ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: (Toronto): McClelland and Stewart, (1994).
Description: 2nd printing. 8vo, softcover, glossy pictorial card covers with flaps (not issued in hardcover). A fine copy, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (simple ink signature to title page). The Sri Lankan-Canadian author's acclaimed first book, shortlisted for the Gill er Prize, set in his native Sri Lanka. Giller shortlist, Books in Canada First Novel Award, Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Men's Fiction, one of the American Library Association's Notable Books of the year 1997. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Jonathan Cape (, London
Date Published: 1994)
ISBN-13:9780224041300ISBN:0224041304
Description: First UK and first hardcover Edition. SIGNED by the author. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. Top corners insignificantly bumped. Winner of the Smithbooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award. An instant classic of Postcolonial gay literature. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: London Jonathan Cape 1995.
Description: Tiny bump head of spine else fine & unread in bright, fine dj. First hardcover ed. of Sri Lankan-born Canadian author's first book (originally published. Toronto, 1995). 1st U.K. ed. Binding is HB. read more
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