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Abomination

By Paul Golding

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| Paperback | 9780330392679

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Cruising the seamy underbelly of London’s gay scene, James Moore Zamora is as eager to repel men as he is to seduce them. Handsome, sophisticated, intelligent, and vain, beneath his immaculately maintained exterior lies an elaborate network of deeply embedded scars from a lifetime filled with Continue

Cruising the seamy underbelly of London’s gay scene, James Moore Zamora is as eager to repel men as he is to seduce them. Handsome, sophisticated, intelligent, and vain, beneath his immaculately maintained exterior lies an elaborate network of deeply embedded scars from a lifetime filled with betrayal and isolation. Born to negligent, self-absorbed parents and raised among upper crust society on a picturesque Spanish island, at nine-years-old James is sent off to an exclusive Catholic boarding school in England. Met with savageness by his peers, and seduced by the twisted affections of his teachers, he soon develops a self-consciousness that passes for self-awareness and a profound cynicism that masks savage anger. Charged with linguistic precision, brutal honesty, and caustic wit, The Abomination is a disturbing yet electrifying account of one man’s tortured coming of age.

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  • Grope springs eternal

    The Abomination Paul Golding Picador £16, pp500 Buy it at BOL To fall in love with oneself, as Oscar Wilde insinuated, is the beginning of a life-long affair. Paul Golding's first novel blissfully consummates just such a relationship. It is a work ab ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • The lost boy

    The Abomination Paul Golding Picador, £16.99, 515pp Buy it at BOL To read this extraordinary debut novel is to feel oneself to be drowning, or suffocating in an oxygen-starved nightclub, or choking on clouds of musky perfume. The narrator's story, wh ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 200 Pages
  • Edition: New Ed
  • ISBN-10: 0330392670
  • ISBN-13: 9780330392679
  • Publisher: PICADOR (MACM)
  • Pub date: Jan 12, 2001
  • Dimensions: 1226 mm x 839 mm x 258 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover and eBook
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