Massage |
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| Author:
| Flesh, Henry |
| ISBN: | 978-1-888451-06-1 |
| Publication Date: | May 1999 |
| Publisher: | Akashic Books
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $15.95 |
Book Description:
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As Henry Flesh's brilliant first novel begins, it,is the mid-90's, a time when the ""sweetness"" of,AIDS lies across Manhattan like "" a nebulous,gloom...a deep distress."" Randy, an erotic masseur,becomes involved with a client, Graham Mason, a,famous, dying writer. Their sadomasochistic trysts,soon become much more than business: Graham,searches for his long dead lover in the angelic,face of Randy, and for the lost pleasure world of,the 60's and 70's - while Randy discovers in,Graham...
More DescriptionAs Henry Flesh's brilliant first novel begins, it,is the mid-90's, a time when the ""sweetness"" of,AIDS lies across Manhattan like "" a nebulous,gloom...a deep distress."" Randy, an erotic masseur,becomes involved with a client, Graham Mason, a,famous, dying writer. Their sadomasochistic trysts,soon become much more than business: Graham,searches for his long dead lover in the angelic,face of Randy, and for the lost pleasure world of,the 60's and 70's - while Randy discovers in,Graham the powerful image of the midwestern,businessman who seduced him as a child.