Mason Stokes

Saving Julian (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Paul believes that homosexuality is an illness. But when he tries to cure himself, and others, he learns just how stubborn desire can be.

Paul Drucker has made a name for himself telling young gay men that he can cure them of their 'sinful desires'. Trouble is, he's all too familiar with those desires himself, which leads him to Julian Evans, a male 'escort' he finds online. Paul tells himself, and Julian, that he simply needs an assistant, someone to help him on an upcoming lecture tour. The reality, of course, is quite different, and when the media discovers them together, Paul tries to straighten up his image by starting an ex-gay group at his church.

Which is where Julian's roommate, Aaron, comes in. Eager to expose the ex-gay movement for the sham that it is, Aaron goes undercover in Paul's conversion group, posing as a gay man hoping to be 'cured'. However, things get complicated, and more than a little strange, when Aaron meets the other members of the group-a motley assortment of queers struggling to reconcile their desires with their faith, and with their families. Will Paul's techniques, which include group showers, lessons in manly walking, and something called 'holding therapy', lead to newly created heterosexuals? To tragedy? Maybe even to love?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Totally Entwined Group Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786515704
• Artikelnr.: 48126928

Autorenporträt

At the age of twelve, Mason Stokes thought he was a New York Jewish intellectual. Turns out he was just a gay southerner with a fondness for early-period Woody Allen. But since both options would have gotten him beaten up, he made other choices, devoting himself to quiet study, courtly manners, and non-threatening outfits.

This led naturally to an English major (the last refuge of scoundrels), where he found himself obsessed with Russian literature, an obsession he abandoned after failing, on repeated tries, to make it more than halfway through The Brothers Karamazov.

In college, his homosexuality was solidified by his experience playing drums in cover bands at frat parties, where he watched drunk boys whisper the chorus of "Feel Like Making Love" into their girlfriends' ears during slow dances. From this he never fully recovered.

Despite his failure with Dostoevsky, novels were the only things that made any sense to him, so he enrolled in a graduate program, where this sense was slowly beaten out of him. He enjoyed this experience, and hoped to inflict it on others, which he was finally able to do when he became an English professor.

Along the way he dated scores of men, to whom he sincerely apologizes.

Mason teaches at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. Saving Julian is his first novel.