- Avoidance (novel)
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avoidance (conflict) ."infobox Book |
name = Avoidance
title_orig =
translator =
author =Michael Lowenthal
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country = United States
language = English
series =
genre =Novel
publisher =Graywolf Press
release_date = 1 November 2002
media_type = Print (Paperback )
pages = 272 p. (paperback edition)
isbn = ISBN 1-55597-367-1 (paperback edition)
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followed_by ="Avoidance" is a 2002
novel byMichael Lowenthal . [cite news |title=Shunned |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-245956.html |work=The Washington Post |date=2003-01-12 |accessdate=2008-09-03 ] [cite news |title=ONE NOT VERY HAPPY CAMPER WRESTLES WITH FAITH, TEMPTATION |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=BG&p_theme=bg&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F9FA816A254DB57&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |work=Boston Globe |date=2003-03-23 |accessdate=2008-09-03 ] It was nominated for aLambda Literary Award in 2003. [cite news |title=Lambda Literary Award Finalists Announced |url=http://www.chicagopride.com/news/article.cfm/articleid/524281 |work=Chicago Pride |date=2003-01-25 |accessdate=2008-09-03 ]"Avoidance" explores the topics of
child sexual abuse andchild sexuality . It is also about social conventions andmores , and ways in which they depend on environment and upbringing.Plot summary
Jeremy is a 28-year-old man working at the
summer camp [cite news |title=Secret summer love |url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-26885785_ITM |work=The Advocate |date=2002-12-10 |accessdate=2008-09-03 ] where he spent a childhood summer and where he found a true sense of family after the death of his father. Jeremy now works at the camp as an assistant director.He becomes infatuated with Max, a disturbed 14-year-old. When Max confides in him that he has been molested by the camp director, a victim of sexual abuse himself, Jeremy realises just how close he came to actually committing the same crime.
References
ee also
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Pedophilia
*List of books portraying paedophilia or sexual abuse of minors
*Child sexual abuse
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