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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT LeRoyby: Savannah Knoop  List Price: $17.95 Amazon.com's Price: $13.11 You Save: $4.84 (27%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 306.0973 EAN: 9781583228517 Edition: A Seven Stories Press 1st Ed ISBN: 1583228519 Label: Seven Stories Press Manufacturer: Seven Stories Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: October 01, 2008 Publisher: Seven Stories Press Studio: Seven Stories Press Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: In January 2006, The New York Times unmasked Savannah Knoop as the face of the mysterious author JT LeRoy. A media frenzy ensued as JT’s fans, mentors, and readers came to terms with the fact that the gay-male-ex-truck-stop-prostitute-turned-literary-wunderkind was really a girl from San Francisco, whose middle-aged sister-in-law, Laura Albert, wrote the books. Girl Boy Girl is the story of how Savannah led this bizarre double life for six years, trading a precarious existence as a college dropout for a life in which she was embraced by celebrities and artists—Carrie Fisher, Courtney Love, Mary Ellen Mark, Winona Ryder, Asia Argento, Sharon Olds, Gus Van Sant, Mike Pitt, Calvin Klein, Shirley Manson, to name a few—and traveled the world. Telling her side of the story for the first time, Savannah reveals how being perceived as a boy gave her a sense of confidence and entitlement she never had before. Her love affair with Asia Argento is particularly wrenching, as they embark on an intimate relationship that causes more alienation than closeness. As Savannah and Laura struggle over control of the JT character, Savannah realizes the limits of the game, and is relieved when it’s over. Inadvertently, she finds herself through the adventure of being someone else. "In 2001 I photographed JT Leroy for Vanity Fair. Five years later, we met again; this time Savannah Knoop was her true self. We immediately became friends. She gave me her book to read. Not only is it beautifully written, it's a fascinating and intimate story. I couldn’t put it down." --Mary Ellen Mark Savannah Knoop began to lead a double life in 1999, when her sister-in-law asked her to be the face of JT LeRoy, author of the internationally acclaimed novels Sarah and The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things. Their true identities were revealed in 2006. Born in 1981, Knoop began designing clothing six years ago. In 2003, she and a partner began a clothing company under the name of Tinc. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Even the ghost writer didnt save this...J.D. Salinger said, "A serious writer should put in the time to locate her own voice before she goes singing to the balcony." Problem is there is NO voice and serious isn't possible to someone who betrays everyone to sell clothes and try to disguise that they are little more then a pathetic obsessed Asia Argento stalker. Rating:  - The Story Behind The FaceWhen the story broke that JT Leroy didn't exist in the way he'd been said to exist, a lot of people on the periphery of this phenomena wanted to know more. Savannah Knoop provides not a typical insider's bitter wail but rather a heartfelt and clear-eyed tale of how the public face of a hip and cool author was created and thrived for a while. She's a good writer and is able to capture some of the manic, slap-dash nature of the enterprise that was JT Leroy and make it a good story. In ... Read More Rating: - She needs to pay the rentEntertaining but painfully egotistic at the same time. She clearly loves attention, exploiting herself and money. To each their own. Rating: - Leading a Double LifeKoop, Savannah."Girl Boy Girl", Seven Stories Press, 2008. Leading a Double Life Amos Lassen In 1999 Savannah Koop began to lead a double life. Her sister-in-law asked her to be the public face of JT Leroy, an acclaimed author. In was not until 2006 that her true identity came out. Savannah impersonated Leroy who was a truck-stop boy turned author. What the book does is give us is show how people react to a celebrity or better said, to someone they think is a ... Read More Rating:  - Simply fascinating.Savannah Knoop's well written account of her experience as the body [or wig and glasses] of J. T. LeRoy, the famed but fictitious truckstop-boy-turned-author, is rivetting even if you've never read a LeRoy book or seen the movie. Simply put, the experience of seeing how people react to her when they think she's not just a he but also a victim and a celebrity is a fascinating exposure of the projections people make and of celebrity culture. Knoop captures both the humor and pathos of never being sure ... Read More 
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