"You can be with someone, enjoy each other, and not love them and not be alone. That's clear to me," Henry said. As those words rolled out of his mouth for the thousandth time he could remember how, at one time, the whole proposition had been easy to make manifest. But that was a long time ago in The City of New Orleans, long before it became The City of NO, when life was still good, before 'good' was relegated to marketing campaigns explaining that God is Good when we've all learned that may not be entirely true. —from THE CITY OF NO
The triad of interlaced novellas which make up Louie Crowder's The City of NO take their protagonists, and the reader, on voyages of adventure, passion, tragedy, and self-knowledge. Like Ahab, Keller Hardy chases an aquatic monster of doom; like Odysseus and Jonah, Henry Gereighty roams the varied and perilous world to find a way home. In language by turns surreal, mystical, ribald, analytical, and intimate, Crowder shows us the shattered inner landscape of gay men in the Deep South, survivors of dual devastations, the Genocide (AIDS and homophobia) and the Catastrophe (Katrina). The struggle between love and hatred is enacted in societal rage and in the tenderest human bonds. The epic quest may both exalt and ravage. —John C. McLucas, author of Dialogues on the Beach
Louie Crowder's enthralling novel about Gen X/Y gays in the South and the particular hardships they face there starts in New Orleans and moves from Florida to Tennessee, where ex-playwright Henry Gereighty has returned to the town in which he was raised and where his father is dying, before going back to New Orleans, the City of NO. It's a compelling story about Gereighty and another gay man, Keller Hardy, that is lyrical, poignant, philosophical, honest and earthy. —Charles Rammelkamp, author of Mortal Coil and Catastroika
ISBN 978-1-938144-70-7
$20.00 BrickHouse Books/Stonewall
"You can be with someone, enjoy each other, and not love them and not be alone. That's clear to me," Henry said. As those words rolled out of his mouth for the thousandth time he could remember how, at one time, the whole proposition had been easy to make manifest. But that was a long time ago in The City of New Orleans, long before it became The City of NO, when life was still good, before 'good' was relegated to marketing campaigns explaining that God is Good when we've all learned that may not be entirely true. —from THE CITY OF NO
The triad of interlaced novellas which make up Louie Crowder's The City of NO take their protagonists, and the reader, on voyages of adventure, passion, tragedy, and self-knowledge. Like Ahab, Keller Hardy chases an aquatic monster of doom; like Odysseus and Jonah, Henry Gereighty roams the varied and perilous world to find a way home. In language by turns surreal, mystical, ribald, analytical, and intimate, Crowder shows us the shattered inner landscape of gay men in the Deep South, survivors of dual devastations, the Genocide (AIDS and homophobia) and the Catastrophe (Katrina). The struggle between love and hatred is enacted in societal rage and in the tenderest human bonds. The epic quest may both exalt and ravage. —John C. McLucas, author of Dialogues on the Beach
Louie Crowder's enthralling novel about Gen X/Y gays in the South and the particular hardships they face there starts in New Orleans and moves from Florida to Tennessee, where ex-playwright Henry Gereighty has returned to the town in which he was raised and where his father is dying, before going back to New Orleans, the City of NO. It's a compelling story about Gereighty and another gay man, Keller Hardy, that is lyrical, poignant, philosophical, honest and earthy. —Charles Rammelkamp, author of Mortal Coil and Catastroika
ISBN 978-1-938144-70-7
$20.00 BrickHouse Books/Stonewall
