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This is True Love
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Essays and Stories
Keith Banner’s newest collection of stories and essays exposes how desire allows rural boys not to escape or ascend their lives but to step beyond the need to buy into the dreams that middle-class America has propagated. These are stories, some based on the realities of the author’s life, some spun fiction, that offer what goes on in the hearts and minds of youths at once trapped by the demands of their Rust Belt neighborhoods and also freed by a welcome sense of being the outsider.
Paperback, 228 pages
Cover and interior design by Inkspiral Design
“Keith Banner approaches the main characters in This is True Love, gay men who are mostly living in the margins of society, with a potent mixture of sympathy and disdain. In allowing them to escape — sometimes only briefly — the confines of their emotional or physical paralyses, he also forces them to confront uncomfortable truths about themselves and the indifference of a society of which they crave to be a part as much as they reject it.” — Philip Dean Walker, author of Read by Strangers
"No one writes quite like Keith Banner; his work is beautiful." — L.A. Fields, author of Homo Superiors
"No one writes quite like Keith Banner; his work is beautiful." — L.A. Fields, author of Homo Superiors
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