Sacred Lips of the Bronx

by Douglas Sadownick

Book Overview

Mikey, a young, gay, Los Angeles man whose open marriage to Robert is souring, is flooded by thoughts of his native Bronx, his first love, and his Jewish heritage that force him to reckon with the reality of AIDS.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312110529
• ISBN13: 9780312110529
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 307 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

One of the all time best in gay fiction!

Sacred Lips of the Bronx burns up the page and turns the readers expectations and heart upsidedown! Sadownick opens up and gives us a new, bold, sexy, spiritual, take on life. Sacred Lips of the Bronx is truly a gift. Gay or not, new American fiction doesn't get better than this, it's one of the all time best in gay fiction!

Poignant and hot tale of clashing expectations

The Kirkus Review I saw here inspired me to express my opinion that this is one of the half dozen best novels about gay men from the last decade or more (with Latin Moon in Manhattan, Landscape/Memory, The Swimming Pool Library, The Waters of Thirst, and The Mysteries of Pittsburgh). It is sometimes very funny, sometimes very arousing, and manages to show that intragenerational misunderstandings can be as profound as intergenerational and interethnic ones. That's a lot for one book to do, and it is also beautifully written.