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Infidelity

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Enter Tom and Hank's world of lust,love,acting and theatre. Walk down a Broadway street and stop wondering how you might get on that Broadway stage.Feel and understand the aspirations of a young man going to auditions,working in the theatre and coming to terms with Broadway's distain for significant drama.Tom's love for acting inspired (in some part) by Marlon Brando,James Dean and Montgomery Clift left me with a profound appreciation of how an actor can connect with the audience. William Rooney gives us a young couple desperate to fathom the meaning of their love for each other. William Rooney understands the hellbent 60's and weaves Tom and Hank's world into the fabric of the "Times". "Infidelity" restores my faith in the power of zeal and the respect it should garner."Infidelity" shines a spotlight on those with power who induce the "uninitiated" to shed their fervor for "favors". I so look forward to reading William Rooneys next work.He is a writer you write home about!

"Is true love just a name given to sexual pleasure? Such was the question faced by Tom Clifden, a clever street hustler who found himself sexually glued to Hank Carter, a struggling would-be actor in New York City. Their physical and sexual appetites for each other knew no boundaries. Night after night they revelled in passionate and uninhibited sexual episodes. But the question comes up much later. Tom is 53-years-old and (without Hank) has used his good looks and street smarts to good advantage. He owns a string of bars across the country and is comfortably settled in Key West. His quietude ends abruptly when a letter arrives from Eunice, a woman who 25 years earlier was Hank's first love - and the woman whom Hank had abandoned for Tom's unbelievable sexual powers and pleasures. This is the story of two handsome young men who try to build a relationship during the sexually explosive and carefree years of the late 60s. The tale of their love unfolds, revealing the challenges of the ever-growing temptations of Infidelity." - abstract from Intermale

Sorry - I wanted to like this book, but I just couldn't. I tried, but I kept having visions of all those horrible Harlequin Books my mother used to read when I was a kid. That maybe is not fair - this book strives for more ... but it is just a little too much. Proceed with caution.