Angel Lust, An Erotic Novel of Time Travel [Kindle Edition]

Perry Brass (Author)

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Review

Brass's ability to go from describing seedy gay bars in New York to 11th-century castles is a testament to his skill as a writer. -- Gregg Herren, The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review. Spring, 2000

Product Description

“I can go back. I can watch. I can be told and can tell; but do as I will, I cannot change things. That is the Law of Angels.”

Maybe you once met Tommy Angelo.
Tall. Striking. Swimmer’s body. Silver-platinum hair; mesmerizing eyes like a rainbow. A street-wise “massage therapist” with a gift for making his clients very happy. Tommy’s in a long-term relationship with Bert. Very long—close to a millennium. See, Tommy and Bert are angels, but not exactly from a Hallmark greeting card. No wings. Sexually free. Amazingly giving.
Angel Lust wanders through a white-hot region where intense eros and spirituality explore one another. Unashamedly. It connects Tommy Angelo to his past life. That of Thomas Jebson, a teenage serf in the violent England of William the Conqueror. One evening, alone in a strange wilderness, he met a handsome young foreign knight—from the land at the End of the Mountain—who promised to love him.
For all time.
Their story, one of constant erotic suspense, introduces us to a gay cult of fearless Robin Hood-like forest men, led by the “bear” to end all bears! To robber barons, medieval renegades, towering castles and the hot secret depths of woodlands. Also, to a modern sexual underground where labels like “gay” and “straight” mean little. To Brooklyn factory men. Street machos. Nightclub witches. And, of course, New York real estate sharks. To political corruption and human goodness, all in a wild modern landscape where one of New York’s most famous (and sometimes gay-friendly) recent mayors is to be found trolling through gay clubs in drag!
Angel Lust is a story of constant action, combined with the kind of gorgeous, mind-blowing erotic encounters for which Perry Brass has become justly famous.
Angel Lust is a journey of a thousand years. And it’s waiting right now for you to begin it.

“The book, perhaps the author’s most ambitious novel to date, recounts the tale of Tommy Angel, an unlicensed ‘massage therapist’ in New York City . . . . The story is beautifully told, and the switches in time are accomplished deftly. Brass’s ability to go from describing seedy gay bars in New York to 11th century castles is a testament to his skills as a writer. He captures modern urban vernacular with ease, and even his archaic-sounding Olde English rings true.” The Gay and Lesbian Review, Boston. Finalist Lambda Literary Award, 2001, for gay and lesbian science fiction and fantasy.

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Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 345 KB
• Print Length: 216 pages
• Publisher: Belhue Press; first edition (January 8, 2009)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B001R4BTHQ
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #378,730 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

Originally from Savannah, Georgia, Perry Brass grew up, in the nineteen fifties and sixties, in equal parts Southern, Jewish, economically impoverished, and very much gay. To escape the South's violent homophobia, he hitchhiked at age 17 from Savannah to San Francisco--an adventure, he recalls, that was "like Mark Twain with drag queens." As a young man he worked as a male artist's model, on the floor of an aircraft factory, and, in the "Mad Men" period of anything-goes-advertising, in Madison Avenue art departments.
He's published 15 books and been a finalist six times in 3 categories (poetry; gay science fiction and fantasy; spirituality and religion) for Lambda Literary Awards, as well as winning numerous awards for his poetry, plays, fiction, and other writings. His work is unique in that it combines frank depictions of human sexuality, deep spiritual values, political acumen and insight, and often outrageous humor. This has given him a small but devoted readership that doesn't pigeonhole itself or his writing.
He has been involved in the gay rights movement since November of 1969, soon after the Stonewall Rebellion, when he co-edited "Come Out!," the world's first gay liberation newspaper.
Later, in 1972, with two friends he started the Gay Men's Health Project Clinic, the first clinic for gay men on the East Coast, still surviving as New York's Callen-Lourde Clinic. In 1984, his play "Night Chills," one of the first plays to deal with the AIDS crisis, won a Jane Chambers International Gay Playwriting Award.
As a poet, Brass's collaborations with composers include the words for the much-performed "All the Way Through Evening," a haunting cycle of five songs evoking the tragedies of the AIDS epidemic, set by the late young Chris DeBlasio; "The Angel Voices of Men" set by Ricky Ian Gordon, commissioned by the Dick Cable Fund for the New York City Gay Men's Chorus which premiered it at Carnegie Hall and featured it on its "Gay Century Songbook" CD; "Three Brass Songs," with famed composer-pianist Fred Hersch; and "The Restless Yearning Towards My Self," with New York City Opera composer Paula Kimper.
He is currently treasurer of the Greater New York Independent Publishers Association, and Co-Director of New York's Rainbow Book Fair, the only book fair and cultural conference in the U.S. solely devoted to the books of LGBT authors and publishers. He directs the publication of books through Belhue Press, an independent gay press.

Perry Brass is an accomplished reader and an internationally recognized voice on gender subjects, gay relationships, and the history and literature of the movement towards glbt equality. He lives in the Riverdale section of "da Bronx" with his partner of 28 years, but can cross bridges to other parts of America without a passport.

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39 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Beyond Erotica, May 1, 2000

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RICHARD MANDRACHIO - See all my reviews

This review is from: Angel Lust : An Erotic Novel of Time Travel (Paperback)

This book had more substance than either the title or the provocative cover photo implies and is quite an improvement over other gay erotica I've read. In fact, it should not even be classiified in this category for a number of reasons including the large quantity of research so obvious in its contents. Instead of a spiritual fantasy, this story reads more like an alternate history which, when juxtaposed with alternate sexuality, resulted in surprising dynamics that many books of either genre lack. The socio-political issues raised by the author yielded tension and gave credibility to the plotline which connected settings and characterizations through time-skipping a la Kurt Vonnegut. Though its continuity seemed occasionally disjointed (my only major criticism), I was never bored. The author's tendency to transform people and places into archetypes was somewhat derivative of, say, Clive Barker's approach, but it provided a heady alternative to your average work of erotica. I could readily identify with the impulsive nature of the protagonist and the quirkiness of the book's supporting cast of misfits and heroes; these qualities helped to flesh out (so to speak) their characters, angelic or otherwise. The liberal use of sexually explicit scenes was not necessarily gratuitous since they operated as a plot device: orgasm as the catalyst for time travel. Implausible as this notion may seem, I revelled in its escapism. Though no one can be defined solely by their sexual orientation, the concept of Eros as the equivalent of pure spirituality (the connecting thread) intrigued me. It's reassuring to know that we have more than referential non-fiction to depict the diversity of gay culture and its indispensibility to history.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Time traveling pedophilia, December 24, 2008

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camille (Chicago) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Angel Lust : An Erotic Novel of Time Travel (Paperback)

Filth and trash right from the first few pages in which the "angel's" pick up kisses his three year old son's penis and encourages the "angel" to do the same and the angel does so, with enthusiasm. Shocked, I skimmed ahead a few pages only to find a scene in which the pick up turns into a three year old and sex STILL continues. This is pedophilia masquerading as erotic gay time travel. I am disgusted by the content as well as by any gay author providing ammunition to anti-gay hysteria that equates homosexuality with pedophilia. I am returning this book to Amazon and although I stopped as soon as it became clear that I was reading a fantasy written by NAMBLA, I only wish I could wipe my mind clean of this story. If I could give it negative 1 million stars, I would.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Convoluted prose and blatant paedophilia, April 15, 2011

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Peter L. (Switzerland) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Angel Lust, An Erotic Novel of Time Travel (Kindle Edition)

The prose is convoluted and the paedophilia dressed up as greek tradition is disturbing and unacceptable. Obviously I couldn't finish this trash and I regret not having read the other critical comments before shelling out for it.