Fishboys of Vernazza - Softcover

Jones, John Sam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1902638344 ISBN 13: 9781902638348

Publisher: Parthian Books, 2003

Synopsis

Journeying through city steam rooms, rugged North Wales mountains, and estuaries facing other places, this collection examines the lives of young men making daring choices—about risky sex, new romance, and status and belief. These sensual stories by a prize-winning author reveal a lucid prose, etched with echoes of the sea.

About this title

About the Author:

John Sam Jones is the author of Crawling Through Thorns and Welsh Boys Too.

From Booklist:

In Welsh Boys Too (2001), Jones packed eight dazzling stories into 92 pages. Now, he jams 10 into four fewer pages, with no diminution in quality. Both books' stories are concerned with being male, gay, and Welsh--an identity in which maleness is a snap compared to the combination of the other two. For as gays adore the sex they embody, the Welsh adore Wales. With its strong Calvinist heritage, however, Wales doesn't love its gays. Welsh laws, basically the United Kingdom's, hence the European Union's, are increasingly on gays' side. Will the culture ever be? That question is brought home, literally, in "The Wedding Invitation," the complex, satisfying heart of this collection. Most of the other stories, full of vital characters and intense physical description, especially of Wales' beauty, are examples of realism. The title story, however, is a smart fantasy about friends exploring an Italian village as distinctive as their homeland, though there is nothing dour about its distinction. Are these the best gay short stories since Tennessee Williams' One Arm (1948)? Ray Olson
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About this edition

• Publisher: Parthian Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1902638344
• ISBN 13: 9781902638348
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168