Blood Warm - Softcover

Robert Burdette Sweet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1879194562 ISBN 13: 9781879194564

Publisher: GLB Publishers, 2005

Synopsis

Bob Sweet is a young, bisexual, disillusioned writer who travels to Grenada with thoughts of suicide and finds himself unwittingly entangled with native women and also women of his past, but then, in the mysterious realm of voodoo meets Junior, a dark-skinned giant who woos him among the fires around the enchanted lake...

About this title

About the Author:

Robert Burdette Sweet is the author of many works, both fiction and non-fiction (see list below). His short stories have appeared in over sixty magazines and been listed and on the Roll Of Honor in Best American Short Stories. He is also a painter, sculptor, and composer. Oh yes, he is also a retired Professor of English from the University of California at San Jose and still lives near-by. The plaudits of his contemporaries are numerous and expansive. Anais Ninn: Sweet has a real gift for creating atmosphere and ambiguity. Gordon Lish: a remarkable talent. John Gardner: Your writing is terrific. Gary Elder: You go for the most dangerous game of all: Truth Absolute. I can’t forget your work because it gives me the human honor of thinking and rethinking.

Review:

Bob escapes multiple conflicts in a tropic island where he meets peace, especially with the dark-skinned Junior. --Ralph Higgins, Wayves

Complex and masterfully-engineered narrative about closeted gay writer who finds carnal pleasures in a voodoo-enhanced paradise. --Molly Martin, Angelfire

About this edition

• Publisher: GLB Publishers
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1879194562
• ISBN 13: 9781879194564
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 281