City of Granite

By Michael Dylan Griffin

City of Granite is a non-linear "auto-fictionary" meditation on a suburban gay child's awakening to the reality of bodybuilding magazines in the 1960's-along with the marvel, secrecy, and shame that accompanied that awakening. Told in the first and third persons-covering past and present-the book chronicles the total sexual impact of competitive bodybuilding on the child/adult narrator. The book serves as a reminder of the great bag of yearning, wonder, and confusion which is the genesis and basis of every erotic life. The author lists his influences as "Rimbaud, the Kerouac of Visions of Cody and Doctor Sax, Mishima, Burroughs, Acker, Wojnarowicz, and Ginsberg." While possibly jarring to an unreflective or timid reader, the passages are in fact calmly and plainly spoken, and if provocative at all, they ought to provoke the reader to address the question: What is my sex world and how was it formed? With an introduction by P. Carlini.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1453654666
• ISBN13: 9781453654668
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 42 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.1" x 5.0"