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Hot Valley by: James Lear List Price: £8.99 City Travel Guides Price: £6.99 You Save: £2.00 (22%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914 EAN: 9781573442794 ISBN: 1573442798 Label: Cleis Press Manufacturer: Cleis Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 200 Publication Date: May 02, 2007 Publisher: Cleis Press Studio: Cleis Press Sales Rank: 76559 Related Items: Related Items:      see moreBrowse for similar items by category:
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 Rating: - Sex and the Civil War. Does what it shows on the cover.Do judge this book by its cover - and its title. Jack, the younger son of a rich southern family, celebrates his coming of age by getting laid by half the guys in his nearest town. He then turns his attention to Aaron, the serious, upright black servant on his father's eatate, who turns out not to be immune to Jack's seduction techniques, though singularly unimpressed by his charms. As the civil war breaks out both men enlist and the book recounte their separate stories. For both, the civil war turns out to have been limitlessly inventive hot sex with most of the confederate army and several obliging civilians on the side. Oh, and the occasional battle too. True love between the two men also finds its course. But this book is a lustily, ... Read More: Rating:  - Hot Valley is just hot...For some reason, I got the impression that 'Hot Valley' was going to be more serious than James Lear's earlier work. I was wrong -- up to a point. Readers whose experience begins with his previous novel, 'The Back Passage', might be surprised at a difference in tone here; but if you've read 'The Low Road' or 'The Palace of Varieties', you'll discover a familiar Lear theme; the selfish, wanton young man, indulging in wild and indiscriminate gay sex until he's finally redeemed by the pricking of conscience and the cleansing salve of love. Jack Edgerton is the scion of a rich Vermont family, sowing his wild oats - and believe me, they're wild - in the years just before the American Civil War. One of my favourite episodes has the ... Read More: Rating:  - More Emmanuel than Rhett Butler, I'm afraid...I was so enamoured of Mr Lear's last novel "The Back Passage" that I looked forward to this book rather a lot. I was rather dissapointed. Whilst it won't dissapoint readers who like a hot scene to excite them on every other page, that's where the book failed for me. In The Back Passage, the hero goes from sexual encounter to sexual encounter in his quest to find out clues for a murder in an Agatha Christie style romp and although the sex is possibly gratuitous its cleverly done and never feels like it. There's also much wit and humour. But Hot Valley - set in the American Civil war - it just felt to me that sex scene after sex scene after sex scene... were linked tenuously with the hero's travels. It felt like the background ... Read More: |
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