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Title: Through It Came Bright Colors by Trebor Healey ISBN: 1-56023-452-0 Publisher: Harrington Park Pr Pub. Date: 05 September, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.78 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Complex characters, Gripping Narrative
Comment: For those of you, like me, who are sick and tired of the cookie-cutter characters present in many gay coming-out first novels, "Through It Came Bright Colors" is a welcome breath of fresh air. The characters are unlike any others I've experienced in recent gay literature. They're human in every sense of the word: real, complex, imperfect, and, at times, unlikeable. They've stayed with me well after I've put the book down, which is the highest compliment I can give a writer. The other posters here have nicely summarized the novel, but let me just add that "Through It Came Bright Colors" is ultimately about going into the wilderness (both literally and figuratively) to find one's true self. That wilderness (be it cancer, a run-down boarding house, or a hike in the mountains)transforms each of the characters, as they journey to discover the truth about themselves.
Rating: 5
Summary: rough and sexy and pure
Comment: From the first sentence, I felt pulled in. Trebor Healey starts his book with a poetic metaphor, but rather than being flowery and sentimental, it's a hard-hitting, earthy, and, yes, romantic opening that made this reader feel that he was in extremely capable hands.
The end of that chapter is as beautiful and perfect as a poem. It hit me the way a poem does, like a revelation, as if the page caught fire and blew a veil off my eyes, and then burned a layer of insulation from around my heart.
This book makes me remember when I first came to San Francisco, when I was young and living on Skid Row. My experience was nothing like the experiences of Vince, or Neill, or Peter, but I believe those characters, and I like them. Hell, I love 'em, to tell the truth. They got into my heart in about two minutes flat and are staying there quite comfortably. It's so easy to love all the people in 'Through It Came Bright Colors,' because the writing comes from such a deep place.
Reading this book, I sigh, and ache, and love, and remember, and sigh again.
But oh Lord, the last chapter. The whole book cast a beatiful spell on me, all rough and sexy and pure, but that last chapter spun the whole thing into orbit. Brilliant and holy: my mouth was on the floor reading it, and my heart felt as if an ancient knot was being unfolded and loosened at last.
A few days ago, I wanted to start rereading it, having forgotten I had already given it to my best friend!
Rating: 5
Summary: Buy this book (that simple)
Comment: The author is a truly gifted writer. Everyone I have shared Colors with has not been able to put it down, holding me accountable for wreaking havoc with their work, dinner plans and habitual sex lives. (--snip follows from my review in Ashé Journal--) Mr. Healey, known in queer literary circles, for his inspired poetry and short fiction which have appeared in several well-received collections including Queer Dharma and The Best Gay Erotica 2003, Healey stands apart from the crop of modern gay writers. The themes and characters he weaves into his texts are not the pablum that mark so much of modern gay fiction without going to the extreme of Dennis Cooper or Tim Barrus. His characters have an authenticity and realness that have more in common with Jean Genet than Andrew Holleran.
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Title: The Concrete Sky by Marshall Moore ISBN: 1560234369 Publisher: Harrington Park Pr Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Elf Child by David M. Pierce ISBN: 1560234288 Publisher: Haworth (T) Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Latter Days : A Novel by C. Jay Cox, T. Fabris ISBN: 1555838685 Publisher: Alyson Pubns Pub. Date: 15 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Reap the Whirlwind by Josh Aterovis ISBN: 1932300058 Publisher: Regal Crest Enterprises, LLC Pub. Date: 05 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Finding Peace by Andrew Barriger ISBN: 0595288235 Publisher: iUniverse.com Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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