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A Lambda Literary Award Finalist. Set in modern day Manhattan, Skyscraper (a Lambda Literary Award Finalist) is the story of Atticus, a down on his luck architect who stumbles into an S&M bar and meets a young man who changes the direction of his life. What begins as a random pick-up evolves into an intense game of sexual domination as Atticus finds himself wildly invigora
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Mass Market Paperback, 138 pages
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November 1st 2016
by Unzipped Books
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4.5 Stars - a flip of the coin but rounded down on here
There are no two ways about it, Scott Alexander Hess writes beautifully. His prose is imaginative and refined, always on point for the premise. But I’ve already noted that previously on my review of The Butcher’s Sons. Kirkus and Rainbow Awards may have given mention to that same book, but it was also one of my Books of the Year in 2015. If you want to read a well written piece of gay fiction, something where you feel the tension and fairly ...more
There are no two ways about it, Scott Alexander Hess writes beautifully. His prose is imaginative and refined, always on point for the premise. But I’ve already noted that previously on my review of The Butcher’s Sons. Kirkus and Rainbow Awards may have given mention to that same book, but it was also one of my Books of the Year in 2015. If you want to read a well written piece of gay fiction, something where you feel the tension and fairly ...more
One of the stranger books I have read - it was almost dreamlike and still trying to put the pieces together after it ended - no epilogue left me wondering " what now ?"
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This tight novella is a lot like the best work by Bret Easton Ellis--darkly twisted, but not in a sensationalist way. These characters are still human, though distanced from themselves in a postmodern world of beautiful surfaces hiding dark secrets. I only have one complaint and that's that I wanted it to go on for at least two hundred more pages. HIGHLY recommended.
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Skyscraper is a strange and lovely book, and one I'm happy to have found. It's fair to say the novel wasn't quite what I expected when I first cracked it open--in fact, it surprised me with how smart and ambitious it was. It's definitely one of those books that rewards re-reading, and I'm excited to go back to it again, knowing what I know now.
Beyond that, it's hard for me to really sell this book in great detail, but I'll try.
What I loved so much was the tone. I can't replicate that in a short ...more
Beyond that, it's hard for me to really sell this book in great detail, but I'll try.
What I loved so much was the tone. I can't replicate that in a short ...more
I just really couldn’t get into this book. I can see how others would like it but it just wasn’t for me
The writing is beautiful but I expected more from the relationship. In the end we still don't know much about "Tad" and we're left to assume how things play out.
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It was a good read.
Skyscraper could have been a torturously complicated book…but part of its charm is that it simplifies the whole subject of midlife–or at least midcareer–crisis to a nearly transparent narrative everyone can identify with as it hints at the individual complexities beneath. It’s a little wonder of a book that packs a great deal into a small package, and it will leave you thinking about the relationship between success and failure.
Minimal and intense
Erotic and touching. Well-written complicated characters, an interesting plot. I stayed interested because I needed to know what would happen in the main relationship, and nothing was ever for certain.
Erotic and touching. Well-written complicated characters, an interesting plot. I stayed interested because I needed to know what would happen in the main relationship, and nothing was ever for certain.
accidental discovery at my LGBT library--
Even though this was like no other book I have ever read and wasn't really my cup of tea, the writing and story line was excellent. Many things I couldn't wrap my head around but that is me. I can see why many loved it. The writing style is very good as is the storytelling.
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Scott Alexander Hess is the author of five novels, including Skyscraper, a Lambda Literary Award Finalist, and The Butcher’s Sons, which was named a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2015. His writing has appeared in HuffPost, Genre Magazine, The Fix, Thema Literary Review, and elsewhere. Hess co-wrote "Tom in America," an award-winning short film, starring Sally Kirkland and Burt Young. He teaches fict
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