Hard: A Novel
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.67 (976 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0786716606 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 345 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Taking place over the course of a single year, Hard periodically stops the action to delve into the sexual psyche of its main characters, exploring what motivates them, what turns them on, what defines their identity — what makes them hard. There's also a motley crew of activists and sex partners, co-workers and family members, porn stars and B-list celebrities. And, like Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City, Hard does it with edgy humor, snappy dialogue, and a scene-driven episodic structure.. But while Faggots was written before AIDS, the characters in Hard are very much affected by the epidemic: Frank lost his lover to the disease, Gene is HIV-positive, Aaron's lover unwittingly puts them both in danger, and Moe's sexual politics are deeply informed by AIDS. The complex web of characters and subplots create a rich portrait of New York in the 1990s. As Faggots explored the 1970s sexual universe of gay men in New York, Hard takes a serious look a generation later, taking readers into adult theaters, online chat rooms, bedrooms, and into the minds of the gay men who have sex there. There's nobody in Hard who hasn't had his sexuality and politics shaped by the epidemic
Sexy, thought-provoking, and fun! korper It's the rare gay-themed novel that trusts its readers to be educated grown-ups, and I'm happy to report that Wayne Hoffman's Hard is part of that small club. This zippy read could ostensibly be dismissed as another potboiler in the tradition of Tales of the City, but it has a subversive undercurrent that elevates it to another level. The likeable characters span the spectrum of comfort with their sexuality, from Moe, "the sweetest mouth in New York," to Frank, the repressed (and repressive) newspaper publisher. As they butt heads over what behavior is accepta. Read this book, and then tell a friend about it! J. Baxter This extraordinary novel arrived on the scene with too little fanfare, and although it comes from a mainstream publisher, it was (and is) relegated to the "Gay fiction" section at Barnes and Noble, wedged in between the beach reads."Hard" could be a beach read, it's funny and sexy enough for that. And it lacks the Violet Quill stylistic pretensions of an earlier generation of gay novelists.But Hoffman's first novel is so much more. Let me backtrack a second and say that I almost never read fiction anymore, especially not gay fiction. One more tortured coming o. An important book William W. Thomas Hard is a novel set in the "sex wars" around the subject of HIV prevention in New York City in the 1990s. The book pits Moe Pearlman, a young graduate student and sex-positive activist, against Frank DeSoto, one of the generation who lost almost all of his friends and lovers to HIV before protease inhibitors came along. DeSoto leads a crusade to shut down all of New York's bathhouses, sex clubs and adult theatres, and Moe spearheads a movement to fight back. Having lived through this era, as an HIV activist, though not in New York, it's amazing how Hoffman get
Although Hard is his first novel, Wayne Hoffman has been a writer and editor for 15 years. Previously, he was senior editor at Billboard, the bible of the music industry, and a founding editor of the New York Blade, the largest gay newspaper in the country. In 1998, Wayne was named one of the country’s Best and Brightest Under 30” by the Advocate, the national gay newsmagazine.A native of Silver Spring, Maryland, Wayne has lived in Greenwich Village for
Though shallow characters initially stunt the narrative, the larger issues of sexual rights and AIDS add depth to their voices, making this sexually explicit debut novel an intriguing exploration of politics and psyche. (June)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. One editor, Moe Pearlman—the 26-year-old grad-school dropout at the heart of the novel—is a founding member of the Alliance to Save Sex (get it?) who participates in civil disobedience more Candace Bushnell than Thoreau: with promiscuous oral sex, he "takes a stand on his knees." The other editor, Frank DeSoto, remembers the AIDS epidemic of the '80s—when he lost his lover— and sees the crackdown as a matter of public health. . Amid a citywide crackdown on public sex venues, the edito