Blonds - Tree Line Story Book Series
Formats: E-Book
Ages: 18+
Can loner Hank find true love with young runaway Erik in the hedonistic gay resort of Provincetown?
The novels and stories of John Stewart Wynne, Lambda Literary Award nominee for Best Gay Fiction (THE RED SHOES), have been praised for their audacious originality and chiseled, precise prose. As Details magazine put it, "In pages that tremble with beauty, Wynne gracefully reveals the darker side of human possibilities."
BLONDS is a deceptively simple love story between Hank, a shy, socially awkward carpenter living in Provincetown, and Erik, a nineteen-year-old runaway. Hank feels he has finally found true love, but all is not what it seems. Dark threads of suspicion, jealousy, and betrayal unexpectedly weave their way into the relationship, as the story builds to a devastating, unthinkably horrific conclusion.
Reviews
BLONDS is another wonderful story from John Stewart Wynne. The characters, Hank and Eric, possess a specificity that is sometimes missing in gay-themed fiction. These are people one can imagine talking to. They know how to work at manual labor even as they aspire to more esthetic goals. They deal with sexual self-doubt, however attractive they are, and grapple with questions of decency, kindness, and loyalty as they intersect with sexual attraction. The story moves with the speed of the boats in the blue sea with prose as bright as the stars that are omnipresent in the story. And the last section, unexpected to this reader, elevates the tale to an almost mythic level.
