Flannelwood

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Spontaneous combustion occurs when Bill, a forty-year-old barista and a failed poet, meets James, a disabled factory worker and a daddy hunk, at an OctoBear Dance. For six months they share weekends of incredible passion at James's house up north in the country. Winter has never seemed hotter in their flannel sheets. But on the first day of spri

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Beyond its moment in the twenty-first century,Flannelwood is also timeless. Luczak explores masculinity (including Bills fear that hes not macho enough), the experiences of characters with disabilities, and the human search for connection with wisdom and nuance. https://www.gertrudepress.org/flannelwood.html

"Raymond Luczaks sexy new novel speaks to the profound struggles of making our way into and fighting our way out of the intricate love webs of the heartevery battle scar and stretchmark, every bite and kiss, every trauma and triumph, shines a strange yet beautiful light on our queer unstoppable lives."Rigoberto Gonzlez, author of What Drowns the Flowers in Your Mouth

"Lyrical and erotic, Flannelwood deftly melds an aching tale of romantic loss with prose poetry and depictions of disability that transcend clichs. Particularly fascinating is the way this love letter of a novel parallels Djuna Barness classic Nightwood, both in its search for answers and its achievement of an elegant revenge."Jeff Mann, author of Country and Insatiable

"Luczak has masterfully done what so many writers have only attemptedhes not just paid homage to a favorite book, in this case Djuna Barness Nightwood, but hes also learned enough from it to rescue his protagonist from the echo of its fate. This is a wise and poetic book, with a breadth of thematic content ranging from disability and intimacy to profound questions about masculinity, alienation, and healing. Luczak has written a serious recounting of a profound love so rare these dayswhy, not since Djuna Barnes!Trebor Healey, author of Faun and A Horse Named Sorrow

"Flannelwood beautifully captures the transformative power of love and the devastation of losing it, all while meditating on literatures power to console."Rebecca Hussey ofForward Reviews

"A beautiful, meaningful, and above all, honest novel." Keith John Glaeske for Out in Print

Author Bio

Raymond Luczak is the author and editor of twenty books. Titles include The Kinda Fella I Am: Stories and QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology. His Deaf gay novel Men with Their Hands won first place in the Project: QueerLit Contest 2006. His work has been nominated nine times for the Pushcart Prize. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He can be found online at raymondluczak.com.