Hark - Softcover

Gordon, John R

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1916356117 ISBN 13: 9781916356115

Publisher: Team Angelica Publishing, 2020

Synopsis

John R Gordon is the winner of the prestigious 2019 Ferro-Grumley Award for best LGBTQ fiction.

"Hark mixes several genres with grace, aplomb and undeniable queerness. It's audaciously provocative, sexy and spooky all at once. And very much of the zeitgeist!" -- Craig Laurance Gidney (A Spectral Hue)

The night the statue of a Confederate colonel is torn down in the center of a dying, opioid-scarred and racially divided Southern town is the night two wild teenagers meet and start to fall in love. White working class Cleve is broke and drifting into criminality; black, bourgeois Roe is alienated and rebellious. They say opposites attract, and who could be more opposite than Cleve and Roe?

When Cleve finds himself, at age 17, home alone for the first time in his life, he summons the courage to invite Roe to stay over. The young men’s relationship looks set to move to another level when they are interrupted by Hark, a mysterious black vagrant who seems to possess supernatural powers, and takes them on a strange and troubling journey into the past.

Hark is a touching, vividly contemporary coming of age story; a compelling, fast-paced and ultimately hopeful tale of gay interracial love; and shows us how necessary it is to confront the evils of our shared history, however painful it may be to do so.

John R Gordon is the author of the black gay antebellum epic Drapetomania. Hailed as “an all-out masterpiece” by Patrik-Ian Polk (Noah’s Arc, Blackbird, The Skinny) and “a dazzling work of imagination” by Michael Eric Dyson (Tears We Cannot Stop: Sermon to White America).

About this title

About the Author

John R Gordon lives and works in London, England. He is a screenwriter, playwright and the author of eight 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 USA; Faggamuffin (Team Angelica 2012); Colour Scheme (Team Angelica 2013); Souljah (Team Angelica 2015); and his historical epic of same-sex love in slavery times, Drapetomania (Team Angelica 2018) won the prestigious Ferro-Grumley Award for Best LGBTQ Fiction. As well as mentoring, dramaturging and encouraging young LGBTQ+ and racially-diverse writers, John paints, cartoons and does film and theatre design.

Edition details

• Publisher: Team Angelica Publishing
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1916356117
• ISBN 13: 9781916356115
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 294