Kenyon Sam - I Am Not Raymond Wallace - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Manhattan 1963: weeks before the assassination of President Kennedy fresh - faced Raymond Wallace lands in the New York Times newsroom on a three - month bursary from Cambridge University. He soon discovers his elusive boss Bukowski is being covertly blackmailed by an estranged wife and that he himself is to assist the straight - laced Doty on an article about the 'explosion of overt homosexuality in the city. On an undercover assignment a secret world is revealed to Raymond: a world in which he need no longer pretend to be something or someone he cannot be; a world in which he meets Joey. Like so many men of his time and of his kind Raymond faces a choice between conformity courage and compartmentalisation. The decision he makes will ricochet destructively through lives and decades until - in another time another city; in Paris 2003 - Raymond's son Joe finally meets Joey. And the healing begins. I Am not Raymond Wallace is a heartrending and mending story spanning generations and continents told with precision - tooled prose sharply - imagined settings and compassionately - observed characterisation. Taking as his starting - point a real - life moment of queer history from 1960s New York Sam Kenyon spins a marvellously stylish and often unexpected story. NEIL Bartlett A joyous literary triumph that moved me to tears. JACK Fritscher A triumph. A primer for all ages. Murray Melvin
Title: I Am Not Raymond Wallace
Author(s): Kenyon Sam
Publisher: Inkandescent
Barcode: 9781912620227
Pages: 290 Pages
Publication Date: 9/15/2022
Category: Historical Fiction