Fruit, Brian Francis
Fruit, Brian Francis
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Fruit
A novel about a boy and his nipples

Author: Brian Francis

Narrator: Brian Francis

Unabridged: 5 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 10/17/2017


Synopsis

What do you get when you cross the Virgin Mary with Brooke Shields, add a trash-talking beauty queen wannabe and throw in a couple of talking nipples? One of the most laugh-out-loud books you’ll read all year.Peter Paddington is 13, overweight, the subject of his classmates’ ridicule, and the victim of too many bad movie-of-the-week storylines. When Peter’s nipples begin speaking to him one day and inform him of their diabolical plan to expose his secret desires to the world, Peter finds himself cornered in a world that seems to have no tolerance for difference.Peter’s only solace is “The Bedtime Movies” — perfect-world fantasies that lull him to sleep every night. But when the lines between Peter’s fantasy world and his reality begin to blur, no one is safe from the depths of Peter’s imagination — especially Peter himself.

About Brian Francis

Brian Francis is the award-winning author of Natural Order, selected by the Toronto Star and The Georgia Straight as a Best Book of the Year. His first novel, Fruit, was a CBC Canada Reads finalist. He lives in Toronto.


Reviews

Goodreads review by George

When I was growing up in small town Canada, "fruit" was label slapped on men and boys who were seen as being different, and if a man was "fruity" he was suspect. Peter Paddington, in this wonderful novel, is finding the world hard to understand — and even his own body is acting mysteriously. I’ve enjo......more

Goodreads review by Neil

Simply called "Fruit" in Canada by Brian Francis. I started reading the book enjoying it,its funny,sad,nostalgic content although I found that when I got to the middle of the book, I had to give it a rest,as the feelings expressed about being and feeling different,from other boys, brought back unplea......more

Goodreads review by Barbara

This book was so much fun. I loved Pete in all his denial. Oh and the Canadiana, lol, very familiar to someone my age. Makes me smile to think of it.......more

My husband bought this book for me for Christmas about seven years ago when we were living in Chicago. Why? Because he read a portion of the novel and laughed at a part where the main character, Peter Paddington, places Band Aids over his nipples to keep them quiet. Once I started reading the book, i......more