Binding: Hardcover
Description: Named a Most Anticipated Book by Time Bloomberg and Electric Literature. Ru Paul and Eric Cervini's Allstora Book Club Pick for June. " Thomas Grattan is a master of plot that rare ability which makes In Tongues a real roller coaster: funny sad shocking and finally quite moving." Andrew Holleran author of Dancer from the Dance" An amiable zippy novel that also smuggles in a sharp analysis of family class and the intergenerational inheritance of gay men." The Washington Post A young gay man upends the lives of a powerful art - world couple in this steamy novel of self - discovery. It's 2001, and twenty - four - year - old Gordon handsome sensitive and eager for direction takes a bus from Minnesota to New York City because it's the only place for a young gay man to go. As he begins to settle into the city's punishing rhythm he gets a job walking rich Manhattanites dogs. But it isn t until he stumbles into the West Village brownstone of two of his clients the powerful gallery owners Phillip and Nicola that Gordon learns how much the world has hidden from him and what he's capable of doing in order to get it for himself. A lush heart - quickening novel about family and art sex and class and the terror of self - discovery Thomas Grattan's In Tongues chronicles Gordon's perilous pursuit of belonging from the Midwest to New York and later to Europe and Mexico City. As he floats further into Phillip and Nicola's exclusive universe and as lines blur between employee muse lover and mentor Gordon's charm manipulation and growing ambition begin to escape his own control in turn threatening to unravel the lives and lies of those around him. Anchored by winsome lyricism glinting intellect and a main character whose yearnings and mistakes come to feel like our own In Tongues crackles with fierce longing and pointed emotion further confirming Grattan as a rare chronicler of young adulthood's joys and devastations.
Title: In Tongues A Novel
Author(s): Grattan Thomas
Publisher: Mcd
Barcode: 9780374608187
Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Date: 5/21/2024
Category: Fiction: Special Features