Book Mercedes general motors In the first tale Kent meets Spencer when they are both kids in 1966 Spencer is the new boy in school and Kent is drawn to him But Kent s domineering sister Suey doesn t like Spence because he stands up to her bullying Each story jumps many years as we revisit Kent and Spencer as teen lovers and loving adults All the while Kent s grandmother Miss Lee continues to be a major influence in both their lives as she recognises their sexuality from the very start and supports them all the way through. Book Mercedes general dynamics This book has been developed over a very long time and it shows Each self contained story twists and turns but none feel like they re not part of a larger work We easily pick up from where we left off with each story even though time has passed in between. Mercedes generals online I ve read Jerry L Wheeler s work before and one thing I like about his writing is although it has homespun American references it feels universal As a non American reader you never feel like an outsider looking in A lot of it is familiar through decades of US screen culture so you can easily picture a 1960s school yard or the North American mountain Miss Lee lives on This is not always the case with American novels. Kindle Mercedes general contractor Besides the ongoing story of a gay couple there is another theme which links these stories It will become evident as you read and has a lot to do with the way Kent processes a fact of life we all deal with. Mercedes General kindle paperwhite A quick and worthy read 208 There s this thing that happens to me when I review poetry that I mention whenever I force myself to review poetry where I find myself flailing because a I m not a poet and b reviews of poetry make me think of that line attributed to Robert Frost where he told a person who asked him what one of his poems meant You want me to say it worse It always feels like my review is me saying it worse. Book Mercedes generalized It s been a while since a collection of short fiction has made me feel that way Her Body and Other Parties Stories I believe but here I am It s no secret I ve worked with Jerry L Wheeler for years he s almost always my editor nor that I ve always enjoyed his short stories or anthologies he edits or his previous collection his themes are always fascinating and fresh and I cannot understate how much I admire his facility with the short form but and I hope he ll forgive me for using but there Mercedes General absolutely stopped me Connected short fiction is one hell of a tightrope to walk and doing it with a singular POV character can sometimes make things feel all the episodic rather than connected exactly but when it s done this freaking well Well I said this collection stopped me and I need to maybe explain that I had to keep pausing to breathe between the stories as each did tell their own complete tale while also sprinkling a layer of prose sand upon which the pressure and weight of the next story would firm the layers that came before into a kind of emotional literary sandstone I needed the pauses I felt guilty over it even because I knew I was denying myself the whole journey but I needed to make it last if that makes sense and with short fiction you can do that easier Mercedes General gives you a life One life that of writer to be Kent Mortenson from his childhood to old er age and these glimpses stories starting in his youth of 66 and crossing the new millennium into 06 cover so many visceral moments of a queer man s life I don t have the words to explain I d only say it worse But where Mercedes General truly makes magic is in how it doesn t just give you a life it gives you so many deaths and other lives and strings them together with such a deeply felt reality this could be a memoir grounded in the deepest of lived history There s an insistent We are here we ve always been here and even when we re gone we refuse to allow you to erase us to this collection and I am here for it. Mercedes General ebookee When I finally did cross the finish line of these stories I started again this time allowing myself to re read them from start to finish in a single setting When my paperback arrives I know I ll do it again 208
Mercedes General is a series of linked short stories following the exploits of writer Kent Mortenson and his husband architect Spencer Michalek as they negotiate a life together from their first meeting as boys Defying anyone who steps between them they take on the challenges of growing up a couple including battles with their families pedophiles protestors at their senior prom and unwanted attention for starting an AIDS hospice during the early part of the epidemic Tender and incisive Wheeler s stories meditate on mortality and loss in ways both discomfiting and consolatory Spanning forty years Mercedes General is also a queer coming of age collection that muses on death and fragility in a manner nothing short of revelatory Never succumbing to the maudlin or the macabre Wheeler s collection charts the painful journey from the uncertainty of adolescence to the hard earned cynicism of adulthood Brian Alessandro author of Performer Non Grata co writer of Edmund White s A Boy s Own The Graphic Novel and co editor of Fever The Queer Reclamation of William S Burroughs Jerry Wheeler has written something special with Mercedes General The story moves across decades following the misadventures of two boys who have the great mis fortune to find each other so early in life perhaps before they re quite ready and somehow defy all the odds bigotry well intentioned but clueless relatives and finally the HIV AIDS pandemic to carve out their own little corner of history Ultimately the story being told here is one that gay literature has somewhat overlooked and it s a story that matters By turns wise sad funny and raunchy this is a book well worth reading Marshall Moore author of Love Is a Poisonous Color I Wouldn t Normally Do This Kind of Thing and The Concrete Sky Mercedes General StoriesEditor of the Lambda Literary Award finalists Tented Gay Erotic Tales from Under the Big Top Lethe Press 2010 and his short story collection Strawberries and Other Erotic Fruits Lethe Press 2012 as well as three volumes of gay erotica for Bold Strokes Books Jerry L Wheeler has appeared in many anthologies including Law of Desire Best Gay Romance 2010 Bears in the Wild and I Like It Like That His first novel The Dead Book is forthcoming from Lethe Press in the fall of 2013 Be sure to catch his book reviews on the web at Out in Print site_link www. Mercedes generalvollmachten net Editor of the Lambda Literary Award finalists Tented Gay Erotic Tales from Under the Big Top Lethe Press 2010 and his short story collection Strawberries and Other Erotic Fruits Lethe Press 2012 as well as three volumes of gay erotica for Bold Strokes Books Jerry L Wheeler has appeared in many anthologies including Law of Desire Best Gay Romance 2010 Bears in the Wild and I Like It Like That His first novel The Dead Book is forthcoming from Lethe Press in the fall of 2013 Be sure to catch his book reviews on the web at Out in Print site_link www.
| Mercedes General: Stories By Jerry L. Wheeler |
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