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Cam Bonham (USA: AK) (2009/01/01):
This is from the back cover. Daniel Francoeur is a young man uneasily aware of his gay sexuality- a sexuality both nutured and tromented by his passionate religious feelings. In a bar, he meets Henry, a stranger with whom he spends a night of the most intense and compelling erotic exploration and fulfillment, depicted with a blending of graphic detail and poetic feeling rare in fiction.Set against the backdrop of Boston in the Sixties, theis remarkable novel is a brilliant and startlingly honest exploration of spirituality andpassion, guilt and eroticism, exegesis and obsession and of the most painful conflicting demands and constraints they impose The Catholic is extraordinary on every level. It should be treasured for its courage, its relentlessness, the matchless beuty of it's style. s
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