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John R. Gordon
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A novel of gay urban Afro-boho interracial romance set over one
sweaty summer following a night of shocking violence in a post-9/11
London of vinyl records, video-cassettes and mix-tapes, seething
with passion and oil-paint, music and dance. Meet bebop-cool
Malcolm, wigger rudeboy Luke, Jamaican choreographer George and
schizophrenic African artist Ziggy, seekers for love, on the run
from buried truths that by the summer's end they all must face.
Murder, bereavement, Vodou, twins and madness: new love on the
rack. Will it - will they, survive?
A thrilling, hard-edged urban novel of gay Jamaican life in gangsta
London by NAACP Image Award Nominee John R Gordon. 'Foreign... me
haffi go a foreign...' Outed and driven from his homeland by a
murderous mob, gay Jamaican Cutty Munroe arrives in London
penniless and desperate. At first he is relieved to be given
shelter by Buju Staples, a petty crook on the White City Estate,
and his girlfriend Cynthia, but Cynthia soon wants to be rid of
this 'wasteman' crashing on her man's sofa. Cutty, however, has
nowhere else to go. Traumatised and lonely, Cutty falls in love
with Buju, and starts to believe that Buju might share his
feelings. One night while out on the rob Cutty makes a move on his
spar. And then his troubles really begin... John R Gordon lives and
works in London, England. He is the author of three novels, Black
Butterflies, (GMP 1993), for which he won a New London Writers'
Award; Skin Deep, (GMP 1997); and Warriors & Outlaws (GMP
2001), both of which have been taught on graduate and post-graduate
courses on Race & Sexuality in Literature in the United States.
He script-edited and wrote for the world's first black gay
television show, Patrik-Ian Polk's Noah's Arc (2005-6). In 2007 he
wrote the autobiography of America's most famous black gay porn
star from taped interviews he conducted, My Life in Porn: the Bobby
Blake Story, (Perseus 2008). In 2008 he co-wrote the screenplay for
the cult Noah's Arc feature-film, Jumping the Broom (Logo) for
which he received a NAACP Image Award nomination. The same year his
short film Souljah (directed by Rikki Beadle-Blair) won the Soho
Rushes Award for Best Film.
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