Corporal in Charge of Taking Care of Captain O'Malley and Other Canonical Stories (Paperback)

by Jack Fritscher (Author) "In his eighteenth summer between senior high and college, Engine remembered, he had beat off exactly 358 times for an average of nearly four loads..." (more)
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Editorial Reviews

Review
CORPORAL IN CHARGE is a collection of 22 imaginatively arousing pieces. Some are stories, some are true-sex adventures, others are elegant fantasies, some are rough-and tumble orgies of the mind. Richard Labonté, --In Touch for Men

CORPORAL IN CHARGE is a wonderful book, full of careful writing and a fine sense of words...compassion and humor... --The Advocate

CORPORAL IN CHARGE is the best book...graphic, explicit...and unabashedly romantic in a truer sense than are most other books aimed at gay audiences... a collection of short pieces which deal with individual consciousness. Like Genet s work, these are essentially masturbatory fantasies...about the actual fantasy of romance...and gay men love to read about romance. --Michael Bronski --Gay Community News, Boston

Product Description
These 22 stores are archetypes of Gay Desire that pleasure the mind as much the libido!

Gathered from hot gay magazines (where test-marked by 1,000 s of readers), 22 diverse/perverse stories by this best-selling cult author include: Corporal in Charge of Taking Care of Captain O Malley which was the only gay play published in the Queer Canon, the literary history anthology, GAY ROOTS. The futuristic Earthorse: Harvest balances the fantasy of sweaty sex pieces like K-9: Dog Dik and a night at the sex-clubz, Selfsucker. The LA night in Hustler Bars leads to the LA 5 AM of Judy Garland in By Blonds Obsesses. Fritscher dishes up Marines in USMC Slap Captain, athletes in teenage Circle Jerk, blue-collars in The Best Dirty Blond Carpenter in Texas, cops in Officer Mike, and sailors in Cruising Merchant Marines. Daddies and sons and frat boys all take a tumble in Nooner Sex, and Big Beefy College Jocks.

Product Details

• Paperback: 220 pages
• Publisher: Palm Drive Publishing; 1st edition (February 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1890834343
• ISBN-13: 978-1890834340
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #945,287 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars San Francisco erotica RRRules!, March 3, 2001

By A Customer

As a musclebear porno queen, I read lots of gayrotica in magazines and books. So when I read gay prose that reads like gay poetry really sucking me into the language of sex, I get off on telling my friends. Corporal in Charge, which I read first in a magazine, is as rhythmic as anything Vachel Lindsay wrote in "The Congo." (OK, I'm a mature Daddy Porno queen.) San Francisco erotica seems more muscular, lyrical, and sensitive than gay writing elsewhere, and this San Francisco author is one of the reasons. His brutally frank "true confessions" stories like "B Movie on Castro Street," "Hustler Bars,"and "By Blonds Obsessed" are real insights into the downside of gay life that balance the upside of wild stories like "Selfsucker" and "That Boy That Summer." I've read two books in this series, and this author's writing is, in this reader's opinion at least, a guiding literary light in "the cool erotic fog that wraps San Francisco nights." He seems to have "been there and done that" to a degree that makes me "believe" the fiction when I'm reading...which is what I want.