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The Celibate
After suffering a nervous collapse while serving at the altar, a young ordinand is sent to London for psychiatric counseling, where he descends into an unfamiliar world of outcasts, hustlers, rent boys, religious fundamentalists, and AIDS patients. In deepening despair, he starts picking up male hustlers and takes a job in London leading walking tours through the haunts of...more
Paperback, 320 pages
Published
June 1st 2009
by Arcadia Books
(first published 1997)
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This is truly a bildungsroman. What started out as a terribly unsympathetic main character grew into a real person, who lived, breathed, loved. Although I can understand how the religious analogy would probably irk some, I found it to be very interesting and astute most of the time. If anything I have a stronger appreciation for those who are able to reconcile their faith and their sexuality, something I have a hard time with. I know that there have been other reviews of this book accusing it of...more
I wanted to like this book so much more. I wanted it to have the same poetry and effect as Neil Bartlett’s Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall. I was not overwhelmed; I was not even whelmed; I was under-whelmed.
The Celibate is the story of a novice priest who suffers a nervous breakdown at the altar one Sunday. In fact, he is dealing with a subjugated sexuality and the advances of another, more radically gay, novice priest. The church, fearing for the unnamed young man’s sanity, se...more
The Celibate is the story of a novice priest who suffers a nervous breakdown at the altar one Sunday. In fact, he is dealing with a subjugated sexuality and the advances of another, more radically gay, novice priest. The church, fearing for the unnamed young man’s sanity, se...more
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