Tangled Sheets [Paperback]

Michael T. Ford (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 17, 2009

From Michael Thomas Ford, the critically acclaimed author of Last Summer and Alec Baldwin Doesn't Love Me, comes this sizzling collection of fantasies culled from more than a decade of his best erotic work. These stories of heat, lust, desire, need, and transformation-an Olympian bacchanal, a chance meeting in the men's room, an S&M-fueled "coaching" session, a police officer who'll do what it takes to get a confession-are as incredibly hot as they are exquisitely crafted. There's "Becoming Al", an "X-rated Flannery O'Connor story" that takes place on the stage at a male peep show. The mosh pit of an underground club brings two punks to the edge and over in the adrenaline-charged "Diving the Pit". A gorgeous window washer gives a worker drone some high-rise sex in "Washing Up". And the power of a young man's first sexual awakening-and the reunion it inspires twenty years later-lies at the heart of the achingly sensual "The Boys of Summer". Along the way, Ford turns up the heat by confessing the naughty personal thoughts that inspired his steamiest erotica. A visit to his incredibly sexy dentist led to Ford's delicious story of one explosive oral exam in "The Check Up". The summer sounds drifting up from the New York City streets on a hot summer night influenced Ford's sinfully sexy voyeuristic fantasy, Wednesday, 2 A.M. A hunky conductor on a commuter train gave Ford lustful thoughts and a whole new meaning for the term "Riding the Rails". And the discovery of anonymous nude Polaroids gave birth to the no-holds-barred "Dirty Pictures". Hard-core, tender, imaginative, candid, and just plain hot, these stories prove that when it comes to erotica that's down-and-dirty AND intelligent, nobody does it better than Michael Thomas Ford.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Ford expands his repertoire with this brimful first novel...a satisfying beach book...a pleasant fiction debut." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Kensington Trade (December 17, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0758254032
• ISBN-13: 978-0758254030
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #432,332 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Michael Thomas Ford is the author of more than fifty books in genres ranging from humor to horror, literary fiction to nonfiction. His work for adult readers includes the best-selling novels What We Remember, Changing Tides, Full Circle, Looking for It and Last Summer, and his five essay collections in the "Trials of My Queer Life" series. As a writer for young adults he is the author of Suicide Notes and Z (forthcoming in 2010), and under the name Isobel Bird he wrote the popular "Circle of Three" series. In 2009 he signed a 3-book deal with Random House for a series featuring Jane Austen as a modern-day vampire. The first book in the series, Jane Bites Back, will be published in January, 2010. His work has been nominated for 11 Lambda Literary Awards, twice winning for Best Humor Book and twice for Best Romance Novel. He was also nominated for a Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Award (for his novel The Dollhouse That Time Forgot) and a Gaylactic Spectrum Award (for his short story "Night of the Werepuss").

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars duh!, August 8, 2006

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BigM "BigM" (east coast,USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tangled Sheets (Paperback)

I cant see buying this without knowing what it is.
For what it is, gay fiction/porn, it's good. Some is really great but none of it insults the reader. I liked this book and was surprised it was as good as it was. Ford holds his own with the best in the genre.

Thanks Michael.

5.0 out of 5 stars Hot erotic writing, September 16, 2009

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texas farmer "JC" (Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tangled Sheets (Paperback)

I first read this fiction in two books by Tom Caffrey, Hitting Home and Tales from the Men's Room. It's nice to have them all in one book. I've always wondered about the man behind the fiction and so I read Mr. Ford's foreword with interest.

But if you like Ford's other writing and are expecting the same in Tangled Sheets, at least read the backcover and other information Amazon has included about this book before you purchase it, are disappointed, and write a review expressing your distaste.

5.0 out of 5 stars Erotica, May 25, 2009

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Lilyrose (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tangled Sheets (Paperback)

For readers who enjoyed this author's later books, this one might shock. I didn't understand the low ratings for it until I read one of his other books. If you enjoy extremely literate, creative and graphically sexy short stories about gay men, you will love this book. I did.