The Sighting - Tree Line Story Book Series
Formats: E-Book
Ages: 18+
The classic gay story of teenage boys in love is finally available in ebook format!
"I strongly urge anyone with an interest in gay fiction to read John Stewart Wynne's story THE SIGHTING. There is nothing else quite like it, for no other writer has experimented with gay experience in the context of our adolescence in straight America in such a direct, sensual and imaginative manner." (Gordon Montador/Body Politic)
When THE SIGHTING was first published as a limited edition chapbook a number of years ago, it quickly became a much-sought-after item in literary and gay bookshops in the U.S. and Canada, bolstered by rave reviews like the one above in Body Politic and blurbs from the likes of Hubert Selby Jr., James Purdy, and Rita Mae Brown. Ian Young also chose it as one of the seminal works of gay literature in his THE MALE HOMOSEXUAL IN LITERATURE: A BIBLIOGRAPHY.
THE SIGHTING came to the attention of renowned British literary publisher John Calder who selected the story for inclusion in his NEW WRITING AND WRITERS series (#17) in the UK alongside works by international literary luminaries like Samuel Beckett, Nikolai Bokov, Jan Cremer, Harry Mulisch, Yves Navarre, and Robert Pinget.
Now, Tree Line Books, the original chapbook publisher of THE SIGHTING, is thrilled to be able to bring John Stewart Wynne's audacious, one of a kind masterpiece to a whole new reading audience in ebook format.
Reviews
THE SIGHTING is absorbingly disconcerting. The story's 1950s Midwest small town teenage setting—full of randy high school adolescents racing their jalopies to the local drive-in, whose coarse normality is contrasted with a sensitive youth's realization that he is attracted to other boys—is gradually invaded by elements from another realm of experience—or, perhaps, another kind of literature...There are sightings of a flying saucer above the town, Bela Lugosi in person appears, and at the climax these two interventions are bizarrely and violently counterpointed against a celebration of sensual love between two boys. The juxtaposition of the surreal and the naturalistic in the denouement is oddly satisfying and miraculously unsentimental in its endorsement of the 'abnormal' relationship.
John Wynne is obviously an exciting talent. I hope THE SIGHTING finds the audience it deserves.
An impressive achievement. I like THE SIGHTING for its strictness, the way it uses facts, its humanity.
