Pawn To Queen Four

by Lars Eighner

In a comic novel of drag courts, an influential radio preacher, Brother Earl, threatens to incite a homosexual witch hunt, despite the existence of some compromising photographs

Genres: Gay Fiction, Fiction, LGBT, Gay

288 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

Reviews

[Veronica]

Oh wow, this was a bit rough. The first hiccup for me was the poor research done on the settings. For the average reader this wouldn't matter, but I couldn't get engaged in the story while I was sitting there thinking, "No one calls it 15th street" or "Does he mean West 8th, across from the courthouse?" Anyway. Then there were the plethora of implausible human interactions. I can suspend disbelief for a laugh or a strong plot driver, but a lot of the time it was as though an alien had studied YouTube (and/or Pornhub) for how people talk to each other. Overall, too many fundamental problems for me to get in a solid laugh at the satire.

[Mark]

Absolutely jubilant! An original voice and vision is behind this crazy quilt which runs the bases from farce to spy novel to slice of life to political activism. Would make an amazing cult film! My only crit is maybe some of the plot points could have been stitched in a little tighter and some things that happen "off stage" could happen on, but excellent writing is what keeps the ball in the air here.

[Kati]

Not as good as Travels with Lizbeth.

[Lars]

Wrote this one too.

[Delany]

Somewhat entertaining, extremely improbable characters and plot.

[James dubro]

campy manic fun (some a bit over the top..lol)