Glove Puppet

Literature & Fiction

Drinnan, Neal

Contemporary

Penguin??Books

Quill: A Novel in Two Parts

Penguin Books Australia Ltd.

Vaslav is a boy with a sordid past and tenuous future. Born Johnny to a drug-addicted prostitute, Johnny becomes Vaslav when, at age seven, his mother dies of a drug overdose and a passing stranger befriends him and brings him to Australia to pass as his own, recently deceased son. As Vaslav, he lives a comfortable life as the well-loved son of a prominent gay man, but when he becomes a teenager he realizes that "Johnny" still lurks inside him. With the seeds of his own destruction sown deep within, Vaslav initiates a forbidden love affair, one that threatens to destroy him and all that he loves. Glove Puppet is a brilliant novel where love and transgression, sex and manipulation, collapse upon each other, and where the best intentions yield the worst results.

St.Martin's Press

Vaslav is a boy with a sordid past and tenuous future. Born Johnny to a drug-addicted prostitute, Johnny becomes Vaslav when, at age seven, his mother dies of a drug overdose and a passing stranger befriends him and brings him to Australia to pass as his own, recently deceased son. As Vaslav, he lives a comfortable life as the well-loved son of a prominent gay man, but when he becomes a teenager he realizes that "Johnny" still lurks inside him. With the seeds of his own destruction sown deep within, Vaslav initiates a forbidden love affair, one that threatens to destroy him and all that he loves. Glove Puppet is a brilliant novel where love and transgression, sex and manipulation, collapse upon each other, and where the best intentions yield the worst results.

Stonewall Inn Editions

After a wild night out, three gay men battle with a group of teenage gay bashers, leaving one of the assailants dead and a body to hide.

Pussy's Bow

British & Irish

With his first two novels, Neal Drinnan quickly established a reputation as an exciting and compelling writer with a gift for bringing to vivid life some offiction's most unusual characters. Quill is the story of gay literary bad-boy Elliot Barnard, an acclaimed writer whose greatest fiction is his own life and whose strongest impact is upon those who love him. Divided into two parts, the story is told in Part One from the perspective of Barnard's ex-lover who finds himself, his current relationship, and his past with Barnard laid bare to the world in the author's latest novel. Part Two is from the perspective of Barnard's mother -- a figure much analyzed in his fiction -- who, at his funeral, must finally confront the son she always loved and never understood. Brilliant, insightful and compelling, Quill is gay fiction at its finest.

Quill: A Novel

Neil Drinnan's captivating second novel is a meditation on will and chaos. Doc and Dixon are semipartnered men who share a very special house, one of the finest examples of art deco in Melbourne. The builder of this 1924 gem was rumored to have thrown himself from the high turret window after the stock market crash. Does this explain the creepy feeling in the turret rooms? Or the ghostly sightings? Or the ease with which Doc, Dixon, and their roommate, Dung, a Vietnamese-born artist, manage to turn the tables on a gay basher who had attacked Dung? Although Doc is the hub of the household--the principal wage-earner, the father figure--he is being blackmailed by a former patient, cannot engage more than the casual sexual attention of Dixon, and now must contend with a handsome new houseboy, as well as the cover-up of a death. Briskly written, with some of the most closely observed domestic scenes in gay fiction today, Pussy's Bow more than lives up to the promise of Drinnan's debut, Glove Puppet, and may exceed, in some ways, his remarkable follow-up, Quill. --Regina Marler

Pussy's Bow (Stonewall Inn Editions)

Vaslav is a boy with a sordid past and tenuous future. Born Johnny to a drug-addicted prostitute, Johnny becomes Vaslav when, at age seven, his mother dies of a drug overdose and a passing stranger befriends him and brings him to Australia to pass as his own, recently deceased son. As Vaslav, he lives a comfortable life as the well-loved son of a prominent gay man, but when he becomes a teenager he realizes that "Johnny" still lurks inside him. With the seeds of his own destruction sown deep within, Vaslav initiates a forbidden love affair, one that threatens to destroy him and all that he loves.Glove Puppet is a brilliant novel where love and transgression, sex and manipulation, collapse upon each other, and where the best intentions yield the worst results.

St. Martin's: Griffin

Explores the life and ministry of Father Peter Macleod-Miller, excavating the foundations of Christianity, Anglicanism and belief with broad strokes to weave a fascinating tale of love, endurance and triumph.

One of a Kind

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Allen& Unwin

Comprehensive coverage - not limited to the big cities - enlivened by witty and savvy commentary. Author is a regular contributor to gay magazines and newspapers such as Capital Q, and Neal has a strong following in the gay market within Australia. With a team of contributors and frontline correspondents in the most unlikely places(!), the Rough Guide to Gay &amp; Lesbian Australia really has its finger on the pulse of queer Australia.

The Rough Guide to Gay & Lesbian Australia (Rough Guide Travel Guides)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Rough Guides

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Glove Puppet

Quill: A Novel in Two Parts

Glove Puppet

Glove Puppet

Pussy's Bow

Quill: A Novel

Pussy's Bow (Stonewall Inn Editions)

Glove Puppet

One of a Kind

The Rough Guide to Gay & Lesbian Australia (Rough Guide Travel Guides)