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Overview: Acolyte Master is a saga of love, sex, and spirituality as experienced from the unique perspective of Jude Close, a gay teenager who later becomes a Catholic priest.
At age 48, Mary Close is warned to expect a difficult birth and possibly a still-born child. Doctors recommend an abortion, an option that John and Mary Close, a devout Catholic couple, consider unacceptable. The couple prays to St. Jude, “the hope of the hopeless,” for a safe delivery, thus the name given to the healthy green-eyed boy, delivered to the “weak but thankful mother” who vows to encourage a religious vocation in the child.
Author Peter Eros chronicles the coming-of-age exploits of Jude Close and Treat Meanu, Jude’s best friend and, later, longtime lover. In explicit and tantalizing detail, the book recounts the sexual experiences of the two boys—from their early teen years through manhood.
Acolyte Master follows the formal education of Jude and Treat and the evolution of their careers. As preordained, Jude becomes a Roman Catholic priest who eventually takes on the challenge of resurrecting a deteriorating inner-city parish. Because of Jude’s compassionate worldview and take-charge directive, his sensibilities prove a worthy match to the needs of the downtrodden community he has taken under wing. Under his loving sphere, the ailing neighborhood experiences a startling rebirth—a renaissance that garners the attention of religious communities worldwide. As Father Jude’s star rises, however, relentless compulsions and merciless demons drive Treat, a renowned anthropologist, to explore a darker path as Jude can only look on, seemingly helpless to affect the changes that might reverse the painful, downward spiral that threatens to consume not only his beloved life partner’s integrity as a human being, but his very existence.
In a culture beset with puritanical sensibilities, it seems understandable that sensuality and spirituality would be viewed by the majority of its denizens as mutualiy exclusive. Acolyte Master, set in an international panoply of exotic locations and cultures, dares to offers a contrary view—that spirituality and eroticism are two sides of the same coin—a coin that Peter Eros relentlessly and successfully flips, well demonstrating with oscillating, “heads-or-tails” objectivity, a tremendous diversity of human culture and philosophical thought—an examination that clearly underlines, by the book’s shattering and touching conclusion, both the positive and negative potentials of the human spirit itself.
Genre: Fiction > Erotic > MM > LBGTQI+ > Gay
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