The Story of Harold [Paperback]

Terry Andrews (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Avon (1980)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0380499657
• ISBN-13: 978-0380499656
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,081,382 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, funny, and definitely twisted, February 10, 1998

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This review is from: The story of Harold;: A novel (Hardcover)

This is one of my all-time favorites. The narrator is an author of children's books (and according to the cover, "Terry Andrews" is the pseudonym of a well-known children's author!) who is in a series of relationships with both men and women. Unfortunately, his one true love (and hottest sex partner) is married and doesn't love him back. This isn't really a "gay" novel, but has some pretty explicit same-sex (and hetero sex) scenes. Oddly enough, it's ultimately a warm, thought-provoking, and pretty funny book.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning and stays with you a long time, July 9, 1998

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This review is from: The story of Harold;: A novel (Hardcover)

I read, and reread this book, probably 5 times. I came to Amazon.com to find another copy since I have lost mine. It is a story of redemption and finding your way in life. The hero is a children's author, who has some kinky sexual habits (bisexual, S&M). He simultaneously becomes involved with a small child with emotional problems (and part of the text is a children's story starring Harold), and a homeless man who wants to be killed. You have to read it to understand the subtext, but it is truly a marvelous novel. I heartily recommend it, and hope Amazon can find me another copy.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A terrifying, moving, funny, cerebral masterpiece., July 9, 1998

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John Parker Marmaro "gilfaethwy" (Spring Hill, Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Story of Harold (Paperback)

It's amazing more people haven't found this book! Wry, passionate, aloof, deeply moving and disturbing at the same time. (Perhaps its explicit qualities turn some away, but for once an advertising blurb is profoundly correct: it IS "about everything important that goes on between people". Although it may be categorized as a "gay" novel, it is not narrowly focused on gayness, just as gay people are not "just gay" but have the full spectrum of human concerns. At times painfully funny, at times hauntingly poetic, and times even fierce, unafraid to show its darkest shadows as well as its piercing lights, everyone with a heart and a head should experience this novel.