Sacred Lips of the Bronx: A Novel

By Douglas Sadownick

Book Overview

Taking the gay novel into uncharted terrain, Sacred Lips of the Bronx explores AIDS activism, Jewish folklore, kinky sex, the California New Age, and the streets of the Bronx. "Sadownick's imaginative narrative, unique voice, and character development, truly break new ground in gay fiction".--Library Journal.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312131658
• ISBN13: 9780312131654
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Length: 307 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.0" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

One of the all time best in gay fiction!

Sacred Lips of the Bronx burns up the page and turns the readers expectations and heart upsidedown! Sadownick opens up and gives us a new, bold, sexy, spiritual, take on life. Sacred Lips of the Bronx is truly a gift. Gay or not, new American fiction doesn't get better than this, it's one of the all time best in gay fiction!

Poignant and hot tale of clashing expectations

The Kirkus Review I saw here inspired me to express my opinion that this is one of the half dozen best novels about gay men from the last decade or more (with Latin Moon in Manhattan, Landscape/Memory, The Swimming Pool Library, The Waters of Thirst, and The Mysteries of Pittsburgh). It is sometimes very funny, sometimes very arousing, and manages to show that intragenerational misunderstandings can be as profound as intergenerational and interethnic ones. That's a lot for one book to do, and it is also beautifully written.