Poster Boy by Allan Cope

Poster Boy’s fabulous life is a fabrication of gossip mags.

The real story — he is intellectually impaired Wimmie, who becomes a supermodel for designer jeans through the camera lens of his lover, Zac.

Wimmie’s life is far more extraordinary than the crazy fiction of the Poster Boy — all the more remarkable for being real. Wimmie soars above his limitations, freeing others along his way from the shackles of convention.

Poster Boy’s confronting themes — entitlement to parenthood, the boundaries of disability and its impacts on family and sexual abuse inflicted by an older woman on a younger man — challenge our preconceptions.

Poster Boy is by Sydney-based author Allan Cope whose writing deals with society’s contradictions, leading us to murky corners and unexamined edges of ourselves. Sydney launch:

When:Thursday August 14th, 2008

Time: 6pm

Where: Gleebooks — Glebe, Sydney

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