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Plot / Content: Rating: G "Their love affair broke a lot of conventions . . . but it didn't break them all. For Peter and Charlie are in love - with each other - and with Martha. And Martha is passionately in love with them both. "From St Tropez to Athens to Mykonos, this powerful, moving novel follows their devastating triangle of romance and desire through a world of sun-drenched pleasure and Mediterranean adventure." (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: Two blond, tanned, classically handsome men in tight light-blue trunks stand holding hands and gazing into each other's eyes. Looking between them is a woman, slender, bikini-ed, with long thick golden hair. In the background a yacht ploughs through the sea. The three figures are sculpured, but not quite real, the colours garish as in 1950s films. That the cover of One for the Gods resembles a movie still is no idle coincidence. Gloss is promised and gloss is what the reader gets. Two stunningly handsome men in their early thirties (Peter and Charlie, who first appeared in The Lord Won't Mind) sail from St Tropez to the Greek islands making love with a fierce passsion undimmed by ten years of being together. En route they are beset by schemers of both sexes, all itching to seduce one or the other and preferably the two. Whether Peter and Charlie resist or succumb, they do so with all the vigour and drama of masculine men. Expecting little, we can forgive much, from historical inaccuracies to appalling characterisation. Of course in this world everyone is handsome or beautiful, jobs are inconveniences that are mentioned and forgotten and adults react like twelve-year-old children. We came here to be entertained and entertained we will be as long as we manage to suspend belief. 1983 Review for Gay News by Martin Foreman Arbery Books also sells secondhand and rare non-gay fiction and non-fiction. Click here for our full list. |
"He heard the thrashing of water and his heart surged up suffocatingly. He let his body straighten into the buoyant sea and turned and saw Jeannot churning toward him. His eyes swept the shore. Anne was the only person in sight, alone at the end of the promontory. Jeannot flailed the sea with his arms in a final stroke and came gliding up to him. His brows arched up thrillingly into his temples His dark eyes were soft with desire. Peter longed for the moment that was bound to come - tomorrow? the next day? - when he could look at him with indifference. He knew that if he could spend a whole uninhibited day with him, it would be over. The boy would bore him into his senses. 'Hello, Child,' he said into Jeannot's eyes. Mesmerized, he allowed him to slide up against him and their mouths met above the water in a salty kiss. Peter's sex stiffened and he gave his trunks a tug to allow it to ride up against his belly. He kicked the sea to back away. 'That's enough of that. People can see us.'" p 17 |
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