Down The Rabbit Hole

By Dirk Vanden

"Father Figure "Down the Rabbit Hole is a 2011 reissue of the 1969 Greenleaf gay pulp classic originally published under the title, Leather. Vanden has been acclaimed by Wayne Gunn in Lambda Literary.org as one of the fathers of the gay pulp movement and his work is noted twice in the classic 1995 gay literature survey The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage, edited by Claude J. Summers. "I picked up Rabbit looking forward to a fun and horny pulp from the pre-Stonewall gay scene, full of retro gay slang, politically incorrect stereotypes and lots of pre-condom sex. But I quickly discovered that Vanden's exploration of all aspects of male love is as universal as it is serious. The novel's hero, Ron Bartlett, is on a journey of self-discovery presented in a series of graphic sexual vignettes that in less talented hands would have merely been pornographic. But Vanden uses the sex to explore such serious issues as the male search for the Father, in Ron's love for Colin, his "S" top... "The book's back cover blurb compares Vanden to Genet or Joyce, but Huxley may be a more adept comparison. Vanden portrays characters in a state of drug-induced altered perception in several scenes that believably capture that state without losing the reader in all the marijuana smoke."Posted on 23. Aug, 2011 by Dick Smart in Features, Lambda Literary Online.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1492933791
• ISBN13: 9781492933793
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"