The Beginning of Calamities

by Tom House

A dark comedy in which Danny Burke, a shy, destined-to-be-gay 11 year old produces a Catholic School play that goes hilariously awry.

304 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

Reviews

[Cyd · Rating 4 out of 5]

Coming of age, religious ecstasy, sexual awakening, dark comedy--this novel is hard to categorize and equally hard to put down.

[John · Rating 2 out of 5]

I found this quite tedious and couldn't warm to any of the characters. In my opinion the theme of being a religious-minded Catholic schoolboy was handled much better and to hilarious effect in Michael Carson's book "Sucking Sherbet Lemons".