Abomination

With his sensational debut Paul Golding a writer of breathtaking skill andunflinching perception joins Edmund White and Andrew Hollingsworth as a majorchronicle... » 

With his sensational debut Paul Golding a writer of breathtaking skill andunflinching perception joins Edmund White and Andrew Hollingsworth as a majorchronicler of contemporary gay life.Cruising the seamy underbelly of London James Moore is as eager to repel menas he is to attract them. But beneath his cynical exterior lie deeply embeddedscars from a lifetime of betrayal and isolation. Born to negligent selfabsorbed parents and raised among upper crust society on a picturesque Spanishisland nineyearold James is sent off to Catholic boarding school in Englandwhere he is met with savageness by his peers and seduced by the twistedaffections of his teachers. Charged with brutal honesty and caustic wit TheAbomination is a completely convincing intensely graphic disturbing yetelectrifying account of one mans tortured coming of age. «