Midnight in Savannah: Sexual Indiscretions in the Deep South - Softcover

Porter, Darwin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0966803019 ISBN 13: 9780966803013

Publisher: Blood Moon Productions, 2008

Synopsis

Midnight in Savannah is the deliberately more explicit, and more entertaining alternative to the John Berendt / Clint Eastwood Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. For more than a year after its appearance in 2000, it was one of the best-selling GLBT books in the Deep South. Midnight in Savannah skillfully incorporates Carson McCullers, Pamela Harriman, Libby Holman, the City of Savannah, and references to Georgia's most famous (recent) murder into one delectable whole. This book is not altogether straight, but it certainly isn't altogether gay, either. Pan-sexual and Southern might be its best description, permeated throughout with a morality that's more than a bit untidy. But considering what tends to happen after dark in Savannah, who cares? Darwin Porter is a native-born Southerner who's also the author of two of America's best-selling travel guides Frommer's Guide to Savannah and Frommer's Guide to The Carolinas and Georgia. Midnight in Savannah evolved from his intense exposure to that city, and to his belief that John Berendt only told a fraction of the real story. Midnight in Savannah is a steamy romp that explores the sexuality of one of the Old South's most bizarre cities. ―The New York Blade. In Midnight, both Lavender Morgan ('At 72, the world's oldest courtesan') and Tipper Zelda ('an obese, fading chanteuse taunted as the black widow') purchase lust from sexually conflicted young men with drop-dead faces, chiseled bodies, and genetically gifted crotches. These women once relied on their physicality to steal the hearts and fortunes of the world's richest and most powerful men. Now, as they slide closer every day to joining the corpses of their former husbands, these once-beautiful women must depend, in a perverse twist of fate, on sexual outlaws for le petit mort. And to survive, the hustlers must idle their personal dreams while struggling to cajole what they need from a sexual liaison they detest. Mendacity reigns. Perversity in extremis. Physical beauty as living hell. Cat on A Hot Tin Roof's Big Daddy must be spinning in his grave right now. ―Eugene Raymond, staff writer for After Dark.

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About the Author

Darwin Porter, one of the most prolific writers in publishing today, is the author of more than 600 Frommer Travel Guides to destinations around the world, especially Europe and The Caribbean. When not traveling (which is rare), he writes creatively from a base in New York City. His perspectives are not for the faint-hearted. The morality in his books is a bit untidy, and his literary niche is set, according to one reviewer, "midway between pure one-handed eroticism and the literary canons of D.H. Lawrence and E.M. Forster." He specializes in artfully brutal sagas, often with overtones of psychosis, sexual obsession, money, power, religion, personal transformation, betrayal, and love.

Darwin's other works have have included HOLLYWOOD'S SILENT CLOSET, a steamy and loosely historical account of the pansexual intrigues of Hollywood between 1919 and 1926, as compiled from eyewitness accounts of gay men and women who played, and sometimes flourished, in its midst.

He's also the author of RHINESTONE COUNTRY, a novel about the country-western music industry and closeted lives south of the Mason-Dixon line, sweeping with power and tenderness across the racial and sexual landscapes of the Deep South.

Edition details

• Publisher: Blood Moon Productions
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0966803019
• ISBN 13: 9780966803013
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 498