Product Description

A second collection of short stories from the author of 'Welsh Boys Too', winner of the American Library Association Gay and Lesbian Honor Book Award.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #488869 in Books
• Published on: 2003-10-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 168 pages

From the Inside Flap
Moving through city steam rooms, rugged North Wales mountains and estuaries facing other places, the young men in this collection make choices. Risky sex, new romance and easy understanding, a mortgage on a semi or keeping a lid on it all for the sake family, status and belief...
These sensual stories by prize-winning author John Sam Jones reveal a lucid prose, etched with echoes of the sea that signal eternity in very different worlds.

"Those who enjoyed 'Welsh Boys Too' will find that 'Fishboys of Vernazza' is even better. These ten stories are sometimes poignant, often witty and always perceptive." John Davies, author of 'The Penguin History of Wales'

About the Author
John Sam Jones comes from Barmouth. He has worked as a teacher, a chaplain in hospitals and prisons and as a sexual health worker, more recently coming back full circle to work for the education sevice in Denbighshire. The author is a former chair of the advisory body on gay and lesbian issues to the National Assembly of Wales. He lives with his partner of seventeen years in a village on the Dee estuary.

Customer Reviews

Boring.........
Simplistic similes, trite metaphors, irritating, pointless, Welsh names (might as well be Hungarian or Finnish) and boring, boring, boring. Is Parthian Books a "vanity" publishing collective? Save your money and twenty minutes of your life.

Gays From Wales demand to be heard
Fishboys of Vernazza is a competent collection of short stories
that deals mostly with gay life in Wales. Even though the stories have been writen in English most of the main characters are obviously Welsh-speaking. A fair number of the stories deal with the attitudes of the Welsh-speaking community to homosexuality.
One felt at times that the authour had a tendency to 'preach' to the reader and nearly all his characters are worthy individuals
that would not be out of place (were it not for the subject) in a Sunday School text book. Surely, not all Welsh gays are this wholsome? I found myself longing for a healthy dose of naughtiness!
Perhaps there will be a few gay villains in his next collection.