Texas Crude
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9781590216750
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by Thomas Kearnes
Gay men do not shy away from sordid passions in the short story collection. Friendships are propped up by alcohol and drugs, and boys fend off adulthood as if maturity were a harsh prison sentence. Thomas Kearnes's transgressive fiction is the all of the early morning sky, breathtaking in its color, but situated over a harsh landscape of scrub brush, dilapidated roadside honky-tonk bars, and anxious men looking for someone to spend the night with, sometimes for hasty love, sometimes the necessity of a warm bed. A finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Erotica!
Paperback, 210 pages
"Texas Crude: The book’s title is clearly meant to broadcast its contents to would-be readers, right along with its cover, which features a young man facedown on a bed, body spotlit in tighty-whiteys and boots, head barely visible under a cowboy hat. The back cover’s photo zooms in on his ass. Jacket copy phrases like 'sordid passions,' 'alcohol and drugs,' and 'harsh landscape of scrub brush' accurately highlight some of the main themes running through Kearnes’s stories. But there’s more here—much more. Texas Crude fronts like its most valuable assets are smut and camp but, much like its characters, will reveal its full, complex humanity to you in good time." - Amanda Krupman