Gay Body: A Journey Through Shadow to Self

by Mark Thompson

Book Overview

An exploration of how gay men mature and journey toward adulthood reveals how difficult it can be to get past the fairly standard familial and societal rejections and find a spiritual comfortableness... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312168535
• ISBN13: 9780312168537
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Enlightening, delightful read

Mark's assessment of how gay men grow, evolve, and eventually survive in the world is right-on. Gay Body is an incredibly well written account, full of poetic and historical references that have been all too often left out of contemporary accounts of male homosexuality. Gay men have a rich and varied cultural history that Mark so vividly recreates in his book. It's not very often that I pick-up a book and read it right through without putting it down; Thompson's Gay Body was an exception.