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Fiction of Gay Interest
Plot / Content: Rating: G "The year is 1967, the Summer of Love, and Benson is in the New World to work as a counsellor at the Manley Summer Camp for Boys. When this job ends in unusual and unforeseen circumstances, Benson returns to New York and to counting components in an industrial coathanger factory. But even Benson tires of tedium, and with the help of Pablo, his Filipino friend and possible candidate for Dearest Him, Benson becomes a nurse's aide at the Unitarian Medical Center in Brooklyn. "Now something other than a tree grows in Brooklyn and Benson, his heart full of Whitman and his body alive to the promise of his new world, takes a crazy jump that would make even Jean-Paul Sartre gasp. "Yanking Up The Yo-Yo is the third - and final - novel in the Benson story, a funny, moving successor to Sucking Sherbet Lemons and Stripping Penguins Bare." (from the cover) Background / Biography: Michael Carson was born in Merseyside just after the Second World War. Educated at Catholic schools, he then became a novice in a religious order. After leaving university, he took up a career as a teacher of English as a foreign language and has worked in various countries, including Saudi Arabia, Brunei and Iran. He has written four previous novels: Sucking Sherbet Lemons, Infidels, Coming Up Roses and Stripping Penguins Bare. Reviews: "Carson writes amusingly and well in the campus style of David Lodge and Malcolm Bradbury" Carla McKay, Daily Mail (from the cover) Arbery Books also sells secondhand and rare non-gay fiction and non-fiction. Click here for our full list. |
"... at other times he would touch Benson, hold his hand unselfconsciously on their way up to the squash courts. Nothing more but it had been enough to keep the still-frustrated Benson enthralled. He had invited Lee-Chun home for the summer and both of them had worked on a cafe on the pier at New Brighton. Then, when Lee-Chun had saved up enough money for his ticket to America, he had seen Lee-Chun off at Lime Street Station, weeping copiously. He offered up his chastity during his second year at Aberystwyth in the hope that upon arriving in New York a miracle would take place and Lee-Chun would suddenly change into Dearest Him." p44 of this edition Secondhand booksellers |
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