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The Good Boy: A Memoir

✍ Scribed by Fiennes, John

Book ID: 108596159
Publisher: Hybrid Publishers
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Weight: 167 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781742982403

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✦ Synopsis

The Good Boy is a first-hand account of a young man's struggle with religion, gay sex, marriage and middle-class morality. The writer first looks at the hero's pioneering ancestors and behavioural links across the generations of the extended Irish Catholic families into which he was born.

A quiet 'middle' child, he grows through the turmoil and confusion of a hormone-charged adolescence, facing the dilemma of how to follow the teachings of the church, yet get enough sex. He finds part-time work as a gigolo, a life model and even as a minor actor in the gay porn industry. Sensing the self-destructive nature of this course of action, he seeks safety in a Trappist monastery, but after a year or two of peace and silence, he returns to the 'real' world of middle-class morality, sex and sin.

Desperate to be 'normal', he chooses to be heterosexual, meets and marries a pretty girl...

Only in middle age does he accept that he is, and always was, homosexual, recognising that...

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