Quill

by Neal Drinnan

Book Overview

With his first two novels, Neal Drinnan quickly established a reputation as an exciting and compelling writer with a gift for bringing to vivid life some offiction's most unusual characters. Quill is the story of gay literary bad-boy Elliot Barnard, an acclaimed writer whose greatest fiction is his own life and whose strongest impact is upon those who love him. Divided into two parts, the story is told in Part One from the perspective of Barnard's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312269897
• ISBN13: 9780312269890
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

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What an enthralling read! "Quill" is about Elliot Bernard, who has just published his third novel. His ex-lover Blaise is forbidden by his current lover from reading the book, but Blaise is drawn to it and discovers that it's a thinly-veiled tome about his current relationship. The further he reads, the more Blaise is shaken from the ennui which threatened to engulf him. Of course, he's angered immensely for what Elliot has done to him, but could this new novel actually be a message for him? And in the second part, Elliot's mother takes center stage at her younger son's funeral. Elliot has died, leaving his mother to continue in her struggle to reconcile her son's literary and vividly queer life with what she knows from life in the Australian rural town where Elliot grew up. Ultimately, she finds a sort of strength to claim her own influence on her son's career. This compelling, insightful, dazzling book will delight readers and stop them in their tracks (and not at the distracting typographical errors).