Written with exceptional precision and humour, this is the story of Billy Connors, a high school student in the Bronx, member of the swimming team and an all round regular teenager, who, in his sixteenth year has to face the fact that he's a little 'different' from everyone else. Struggling with his secret fantasies about men he faces up to life and what it means to be an adult in an imperfect world.

Reviews

"This is some of the brightest, funniest, most touching writing about adolescence I've read in a long time. And if ever a book will give straight readers an exact sense of what it's like to grow up gay, surely "The Boys on the Rock "will." --Edmund White, author of" A Boy's Own Story"

"John Fox is a talented writer with a singular voice. "The Boys on the Rock "is a unique coming-of-age novel. It is filled with wit...and fleshed out with characters rarely encountered in contemporary fiction." --Richard Price, author of "Clockers"