Avoidance (novel)

Avoidance (novel)

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name = Avoidance
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author = Michael Lowenthal
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country = United States
language = English
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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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"Avoidance" is a 2002 novel by Michael 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 a Lambda 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 and child sexuality. It is also about social conventions and mores, 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

*Pedophilia
*List of books portraying paedophilia or sexual abuse of minors
*Child sexual abuse


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