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Hamlet's Dresser(Reprint)
A Memoir
by Bob Smith
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2003 by Scribner
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ISBN-13: 978-0-684-85270-6, ISBN: 0-684-85270-5

"Of what do we write when we write of love? In Bob Smith's case, it is Shakespeare's poems and plays. Hamlet's Dresser braids two strands of his life into a modest, heartbreaking, and soaringly affirmative memoir. A bookish, lonely child, his crush on the Bard's work became love when, as an alienated teenager, he joined the American Shakespeare Theatre as Hamlet's dresser. In time he would dress other characters, perform in small r ..."

Way to Go, Smith(Reprint)
by Bob Smith
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2000 by Harper Perennial
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-095794-0, ISBN: 0-06-095794-8

"In his award-winning first book, Bob Smith offered up a witty dose of nineties reality with his observations as a happily adjusted gay man. Now, after breaking up with his longtime boyfriend, Smith looks back to his painfully normal childhood to see where all the trouble really began. Like every other American kid, Bob's adolescence was marked by alternating moments of blissful ignorance, hazy confusion, and humiliating self-consciousne ..."