4 Novels by Larry Duplechan
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Overview: Larry Duplechan (born December 30, 1956 in Los Angeles, California) is an American novelist. He is best known for his novels Blackbird, adapted in 2014 by Patrik-Ian Polk as a film starring Mo’Nique and Isiah Washington, and Got ’til It’s Gone, which won an award in the Gay Romance category at the 21st Lambda Literary Awards. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he studied English and participated in the university’s men’s choir. After graduation, he initially pursued a career in music, both as a solo singer and as a member of a jazz vocal group, but gave it up after the time demands of pursuing music while also holding down a full-time day job began to threaten his relationship with his partner Greg Harvey.
Genre: Fiction / Romance / MM
1. Blackbird (1986)
Blackbird is a funny, moving, gay coming-of-age novel about growing up black and gay in Southern California. The lead character, Johnnie Ray Rousseau, is a 17 year old high school student upset at losing the lead role in the school staging of Romeo and Juliet; if that weren’t enough, his best friend has been beaten badly by his father, and his girlfriend is pressuring him to have sex for the first time. All the while, he’s intrigued by Marshall MacNeill, a fellow drama class member who’s surely the sexiest man to walk God’s green earth—at least according to Johnnie Ray. This novel of adolescent awakening is as fresh and heartfelt as it was when first published. Features an introduction by Michael Nava.
2. Eight Days A Week (1985)
Johnnie Ray Rousseau, twenty-two years old, small, slim but well honed, black and gay, is a pop singer by night and a secretary in a law firm by day. From a rather ordinary looking child he has grown into a beautiful looking young man. He has never really had a true love affair, but when he meets the tall blond-haired Keith Keller, a successful banker with the muscular build of a footballer he recognises for the first time what love really is. Keith is equally smitten. But will the big homely early-to-bed banker and the little flirtatious nocturnal singer really be able to hold things together?
Eight Days a Week is a heart-warming love story; the two men are besotted with one another, and they truly hit it off between the sheets, the descriptions are graphic and endearing. It is an absolute joy to read, at times hilarious; Larry Duplechan writes with considerable style and a great turn of phrase – not to be missed.
3. Captain Swing (1993)
Johnnie Ray Rousseau’s life is at its lowest ebb. The love of his life was killed in a hit-and-run, and now he’s been called to the deathbed of his hateful, homophobic father. There he meets Nigel, his second cousin, who looks like mortal sin in Levi’s and tank top, and who offers a love that Johnnie is none too sure he ought to accept.
4. Got ’til it’s gone (2008)
"With his gift for language, eye for detail and consistent tone of voice, Larry Duplechan has the makings to be a major literary figure."
This is the first novel by Larry Duplechan in fifteen years, and the fourth to feature his alter ego protagonist Johnnie Ray Rousseau, a gay black man of Louisiana Creole stock. When we first met Johnnie Ray in the novel Blackbird, he was a 17 year old gay teenager in love with the star of a high school play; now he’s forty-eight, still handsome and gym-built, but admittedly vain and looking down the short road to fifty. In the midst of a midlife crisis, he falls for a much younger man with some serious Daddy issues; throughout it all, Johnnie Ray tries to look at love (and his life) from both sides now (to borrow a phrase from his idol Joni Mitchell). Got ’Til It’s Gone is a queer romantic comedy for the ages.
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"Eight Days A Week", "Captain Swing" and "Got ’til it’s gone" were converted to ebook from scanned pages using ABBYYFineReader and Sigil.
