Description
Manhattan, 1963: weeks before the assassination of President Kennedy, fresh-faced Raymond Wallace lands in the New York Times newsroom on a three-month bursary from Cambridge University. He soon discovers his elusive boss, Bukowski, is being covertly blackmailed by an estranged wife, and that he himself is to assist the straight-laced Doty on an article about the 'explosion of overt homosexuality' in the city. On an undercover assignment, a secret world is revealed to Raymond: a world in which he need no longer pretend to be something or someone he cannot be; a world in which he meets Joey.
Like so many men of his time and of his kind, Raymond faces a choice between conformity, courage and compartmentalisation. The decision he makes will ricochet destructively through lives and decades until--in another time, another city; in Paris, 2003--Raymond's son Joe finally meets Joey. And the healing begins.
I Am not Raymond Wallace is a multi-stranded story of queer redemption spanning multiple generations, told with precision-tooled prose, sharply-imagined settings and compassionately-observed characterisation.
Author: Sam Kenyon
Publisher: Inkandescent
Published: 09/15/2022
Pages: 290
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.72d
ISBN13: 9781912620227
ISBN10: 1912620227
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | LGBTQ+ | Gay
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Erotica | LGBTQ+ | Gay
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