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Between Dances
by
Erasmo Guerra (Goodreads Author)
This debut novel trumpets a sometimes raw, but always poetic, voice that resonates like a tragic Mexican ranchera. Set in a male-burlesque theater, the novel follows the mercenary life of a young Latino dancer who falls in love for the first time.
Will he quit his nights with the johns? Will his lover, who is also a dancer, leave the same hard-commerced life behind? Will th
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Published
June 1st 2000
by Painted Leaf Press
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Apr 18, 2012
Kernos
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Recommends it for:
Seekers of reading about the varieties of Gay life and relationships.
Recommended to Kernos by:
Erasmo Guerra
Shelves:
gay-fiction,
fiction-literary
This is the story of Marco and his friends/lovers Chris and Jaime, all three erotic dancers and call-boys in NYC at some recent time, I'd suggest the late '90s. Though some of the plot concerns their 'jobs', the novel is really about Marco and his life "between dances" shown by his interaction with Chris, Jaime and a few johns.
There are sexual encounters in the novel, but not explicit, and actually episodes telling us more about Marco. I like this approach. One gets bored with descriptive sex s...more
There are sexual encounters in the novel, but not explicit, and actually episodes telling us more about Marco. I like this approach. One gets bored with descriptive sex s...more
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["]Between Dances["] there is truly great writing. Oh, the rhythm of the thing!
Only a writer with a magic wand could show us what goes on between dances. Erasmo Guerra can lift words out of his heart and hide them in ours without artifice. He can make exactly the right words appear in exactly the right places. He can play just the right music for us to dance to. He doesn't have to tell us how he did it, but it can only be that he sentenced himself to hard labor to become the great writer that he is.
This book is beyond wonderful.
This book is beyond wonderful.
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ERASMO GUERRA is a Lambda Literary Award winner. His nonfiction stories have appeared in The New York Times, Texas Monthly, The Texas Observer and aired on NPR.
He is a member of the Macondo Writers' Workshop, headed by Sandra Cisneros. Born and raised on the Texas-Mexico border, he now lives in New York City and drinks too much coffee.
Find me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ErasmoGuerra......more
More about Erasmo Guerra...
He is a member of the Macondo Writers' Workshop, headed by Sandra Cisneros. Born and raised on the Texas-Mexico border, he now lives in New York City and drinks too much coffee.
Find me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ErasmoGuerra......more
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