Martin and John
ISBN-13: 9781616954840
Contributor(s): Dale Peck
Subject: Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post 1945)
Publisher Imprint: Soho Press
Publication Date: 12-02-2015
Format: Paperback
Availability: Out of stock
£18.99
About the book
Martin And John weaves together a number of overlapping and contradicting stories, primarily revisiting the narrator's past sexual relationships, but increasingly offering a 'panorama of American gay men' (Independent). John's encounters range from his first girlfriend, a boy who fleetingly stays in his parents' home, his stepfather, and crucially, his long-term lover Martin, who tragically dies of AIDS. The remainder of this story maps out John's grief as he obsessively seeks a substitute for the one man he truly loved and lost.