
Normal: Transexual CEOS, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites With Attitude
(2002)A non fiction book by
Amy Bloom
Amy Bloom has won a devoted readership and wide critical acclaim for fiction of rare humor, insight, grace, and eloquence, and the same qualities distinguish Normal, a provocative, intimate journey into the lives of 'people who reveal, or announce, that their gender is variegated rather than monochromatic' - female-to-male transsexuals, heterosexual crossdressers, and the intersexed.
We meet Lyle Monelle and his mother, Jessie, who recognized early on that her little girl was in fact a boy and used her life savings to help Lyle make the transition. On a Carnival cruise with a group of crossdressers and their spouses, we meet Peggy Rudd and her husband, 'Melanie,' who devote themselves to the cause of 'ordinary heterosexual men with an additional feminine dimension.' And we meet Hale Hawbecker, 'a regular, middle-of-the-road, white-bread guy' with a wife, kids, and a medical condition, the standard treatment for which would have changed his life and his gender.
Casting light into the dusty corners of our assumptions about sex, gender and identity, Bloom reveals new facets to the ideas of happiness, personality and character, even as she brilliantly illuminates the very concept of "normal.'
We meet Lyle Monelle and his mother, Jessie, who recognized early on that her little girl was in fact a boy and used her life savings to help Lyle make the transition. On a Carnival cruise with a group of crossdressers and their spouses, we meet Peggy Rudd and her husband, 'Melanie,' who devote themselves to the cause of 'ordinary heterosexual men with an additional feminine dimension.' And we meet Hale Hawbecker, 'a regular, middle-of-the-road, white-bread guy' with a wife, kids, and a medical condition, the standard treatment for which would have changed his life and his gender.
Casting light into the dusty corners of our assumptions about sex, gender and identity, Bloom reveals new facets to the ideas of happiness, personality and character, even as she brilliantly illuminates the very concept of "normal.'
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Hardback Editions
October 2002 : Hardback
| Title: Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude Author(s): Amy Bloom ISBN: 0-679-45652-X / 978-0-679-45652-0 (USA edition) Publisher: Random House Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
September 2003 : Paperback
| Title: Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude Author(s): Amy Bloom ISBN: 1-4000-3244-X / 978-1-4000-3244-0 (USA edition) Publisher: Vintage Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
June 2003 : Paperback
| Title: Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops and Hermaphrodites with Attitude Author(s): Amy Bloom ISBN: 0-7475-6456-6 / 978-0-7475-6456-0 (UK edition) Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
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