Buddies
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (539 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312106866 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. He wheedles and cajoles stories from his friends, though they all know that what they tell him goes straight into the typewriter. ("You know how parents send clan photographs at Christmas? The Morddens send their portrait by Charles Addams.") The adult Mordden uses his writing skill like a meat cleaver. Mordden writes like early Henry Miller; instead of linear plot development, there are well-crafted vignettes, structured like short stories that interlock as we jerkily progress from the narrator
This need for friendship, for nonerotic affection, for buddies, shines forth as an American obsession from Moby-Dick through Of Mice and Men to The Sting. In Buddies Mordden continues to map the unstoried wilderness of gay life today.. And American gay life has built upon and cherished these relationships, even as it has dared-perhaps its most startling iconoclasm-to break new ground by combining romance and friendship: one's lover is one's buddy.This book is about those relationships-mostly gay but some straight and even a few between gays and straights. Here also are fathers and brothers and stories of men in their youth, when rivalry often develops more naturally than alliance. "What unites us, all of us, surely is brotherhood, a sense that our friendships are historic, designed to hold Stonewall together," muses on character in Ethan Mordden's Buddies
Michael68 said This man is a gem.. I have enjoyed every one of Ethan Mordden's books I can get my hands-on. I think it is reasonable to compare him to Edith Wharton. His finely drawn characters and his ability to capture the texture of a moment are beyond compare. Where Holleran is often depressing and Picano a bit introspective, Mordden presents a rich synthesis of both the joys and the tears of what it is to be gay in our time. I still think the best of what he has written remains "How Long Has This Been Going On?". Kirk Keeter said JUST BUY THIS BOOK. I picked this book out of the blue from Amazon, and man-oh-man was I thrilled by my lucky choice. I ended up reading every book in the series, and I continued to be blown away by how high quality the writing/story telling/dialogue was. He emphatically chose not to "dumb down" these books. They are written intelligently, and intelligibly. Yeah, I had to grab the dictionary occasionally -- but that's a good thing. There's something for everyone in this book, love - justice - psychology - counseling - sex - politicization of the cause - etc. It's great. Buy i. "Gay fiction at its near-finest" according to Todd E. Keeler. Mordden improved on his original "Buddies" series book with this second installment. While the book moves in a way more disjointed than the first and certainly more so than the last two of the series, the tales he weaves are still well-written and convey an amazing lyrical quality which is often absent from other contemporary authors of gay fiction. Mordden's command of conversational style between characters is masterful. Similarly, the milieu that he portrays (the Manhattan-Fire Island axis of the 1970s-1980s) is evoked so clearly that the reader almost
His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker and numerous other magazines and journals. He lives in Manhattan.. Ethan Mordden is the author of dozens of books, both fiction and nonfiction