Dialogues on the Beach

Fiction & Literature, LGBT, Gay, Literary
Cover of the book Dialogues on the Beach by John McLucas, BrickHouse Books Inc.
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Author: John McLucas ISBN: 9781938144578
Publisher: BrickHouse Books Inc. Publication: October 31, 2017
Imprint: BrickHouse Books Inc. Language: English
Author: John McLucas
ISBN: 9781938144578
Publisher: BrickHouse Books Inc.
Publication: October 31, 2017
Imprint: BrickHouse Books Inc.
Language: English

"No evil stepmothers, no scheming sorcerers, John McLucas has written a romance, but one that is pure sweetness (even the queenie backbiting is benign). In his (mostly) gay world nearly everyone is beautiful, polite, and happily disposed. That doesn't mean it's without its complications. Our hero, Jim, has maintained a chaste love for his straight college friend, Tony, for nearly twenty years. When Tony and his wife, Rachel, rent a house in Rehoboth, they invite Jim to join them. Those loyalties become more knotted when Jim meets Joe, an actor/model from LA, and all four are forced to make elaborate recalibrations of their attachments. McLucas has an ear for the subtle gradations of language and of gay life. He can calculate to the penny what a smile can cost and how quickly it can be spent. He also knows how an account of honest friendship can deliver life-long dividends." --David Bergman, editor of Men on Men

"Jim is an engaging narrator a reader can't help but fall for. From the moment he packed his bags for the trip, I was delighted to cleave to him for the entire two weeks at the beach. I fell for his delicious descriptions, his incisive but compassionate takes on human foibles, his openness about his own desire. I followed him straight into a shining liminal place where suddenly--like the line on Poodle Beach that separates 'the gay boys and girls' from 'the Great American families'--all divisions wavered and disappeared. A heart aches to stand on the threshold of such knowing, but so it goes with all good stories about love." --Madeleine Mysko, author of Bringing Vincent Home and Stone Harbor Bound

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"No evil stepmothers, no scheming sorcerers, John McLucas has written a romance, but one that is pure sweetness (even the queenie backbiting is benign). In his (mostly) gay world nearly everyone is beautiful, polite, and happily disposed. That doesn't mean it's without its complications. Our hero, Jim, has maintained a chaste love for his straight college friend, Tony, for nearly twenty years. When Tony and his wife, Rachel, rent a house in Rehoboth, they invite Jim to join them. Those loyalties become more knotted when Jim meets Joe, an actor/model from LA, and all four are forced to make elaborate recalibrations of their attachments. McLucas has an ear for the subtle gradations of language and of gay life. He can calculate to the penny what a smile can cost and how quickly it can be spent. He also knows how an account of honest friendship can deliver life-long dividends." --David Bergman, editor of Men on Men

"Jim is an engaging narrator a reader can't help but fall for. From the moment he packed his bags for the trip, I was delighted to cleave to him for the entire two weeks at the beach. I fell for his delicious descriptions, his incisive but compassionate takes on human foibles, his openness about his own desire. I followed him straight into a shining liminal place where suddenly--like the line on Poodle Beach that separates 'the gay boys and girls' from 'the Great American families'--all divisions wavered and disappeared. A heart aches to stand on the threshold of such knowing, but so it goes with all good stories about love." --Madeleine Mysko, author of Bringing Vincent Home and Stone Harbor Bound

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