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Condition: Very Good Cover: very slight wear to edges. Spine curling slightly. Pages browning but otherwise clean. Binding tight. Plot / Content: "GERRY WANTED ONE PERFECT LOVE. After Vietna, he didn't want the endless string of casual affairs that had taken so much of his youth. Gerry Kennicutt was a man now, with an independent income and a whole world waiting for him. "ERNST WANTED EVERY KIND OF PLEASURE. Baron Ernst Von Hallers, too handsome and too rich, was surrounded by men and women who pleased him, used him, and seduced him into self-destruction. Gerry was the only one who might love Ernst for himself. FOR A TIME, THEY WANTED EACH OTHER. On Ernst's boat, Hephaistion, on a party cruise given over to hedonism and orgiastic abandon, Gerry and Ernst will have to face the meaning of their desires. And the difference between pleasure and love. (from the cover) Background / Biography: Gordon Merrick (3 August 1916 – 27 March 1988) was a Broadway actor, best-selling author of gay-themed novels and one of the first authors to write about homosexual themes for a mass audience. continued on Wikipedia Use the Search Box in the left column to find other books by this author on Arbery Books Reviews: Fantasies, we are told, are good for us, whether making up for the drabness of our lives or channelling otherwise harmful emotions. Most of us have passed an idle quarter of an hour spending imaginary money won on Premium Bonds or the pools; we have all, however briefly, wished someone dead; we have seen ourselves as Prime Ministers or Presidents. Sexually, none of us do without fantasy, especially alone, whether it is the harmless one of making love with the attractive-but-so-straight young man next door or scenes of rape and torture that would horrify us in reality. Gordon Merrick offers gay men a common fantasy of a world where all good men are homosexual, either handsome or stunningly handsome and either rich or fabulously rich. They have muscular, sun-tanned bodies, enormous cocks and a life-long sexual stamina worthy of nineteen year olds. They live on yachts, are surrounded by passive, understanding and beautiful women and follow a path through life dictated by their overwhelming passions. It is a world completely different from our own, but with enough reference points - Bangkok and New York, dollars and opium - for us to feel quite at home. And the story? I'd forgotten - it really wasn't important. Ernst and Gerry meet in Bangkok and hunger for each other's bodies. Solange, Heinrich, Hank and Maria are other bodies which get in their way and occasionally distract their attention. Will Ernst and Gerry end up together? It takes four hundred steaming pages to tell the tale. 1981 review by Martin Foreman Clicking on advertiser links on this site may allow these companies to gather and use information about your visit to this and other websites to provide you with advertisements about goods and services presumed to be of interest to you. |
Quote from this book "Just off the southern tip of the distant land called Ceylon, most recently Sri Lanka, within plain sight of the old Dutch port of Galle, a luxury yacht skewered on a coral reef has been slowly disintegrating since 1975. Every year, pounded by the heavy surf of the Indian Ocean, buffeted by the gales of the Southwest monsoon, it settles deeper into the sea. It has long since broken in two, evident from the wide inverted V of its profile, both bow and stern pointing into the deep. Within the first year, it was stripped of everything of use or value by the efficient fishermen based in Galle, several of whom sacrificed their lives in their arduous quest. Many stories circulate about how it came to be there. Legend proliferates like mildew in tropical climates; fact melts easily into fancy in the heat. Everybody remembers the night it happened, a relatively clear calm night before the monsoons had really set in." opening paragraphs Secondhand booksellers |
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