When Harry Met Sal

by Ryan Field

Lambda-award winning author Ryan Field wrote this gay romance as part of his series of novels retelling beloved romcoms with gay characters. Inspired by the romcom classic Nora Ephron movie, When Harry Met Sally, about two friends who finally realize how much they love each other after many years, this novel is an homage to the power of romantic story telling and the power for true love.

When Harry Beckham's best friend asks...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 162601650X
• ISBN13: 9781626016507
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Riverdale Avenue Books
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

A Love Story

Field, Ryan. "When Harry Met Sal", Ravenous Romance, 2010. A Love Story Amos Lassen Harry was asked by his best friend to do her a favor and drive her new boyfriend, Sal, from California to New York. Stranger things have happened but Harry and Sal fell in love at first sight. Harry assumed that Sal was straight and besides he already had a boyfriend. Sal explains that he is bisexual and that he finds Harry very attractive and before you know it, the fat lady sings. However, when they get to New York, they decide to go each his own way and forget they ever met. Harry goes on to become a big name designer and appears on national talk shows while Sal becomes a professional poker player. Seven years pass and they meet again and their lives have changed completely. However, the passion they once shared is still there and seems to be coming through. They find the love and respect they both seek. A very simple plot--no? Boy meets boy, each goers his own way, boy meets boy again, love blossoms. It's a simple story which is well written and the characters are well fleshed out. The sex is hot and the romance is wonderful. This is a recommended light read.

When Harry Met Sal by Ryan Field

I remember reading on the blog's author that he wanted to write a romance from a man's perspective. He was tired, in a very kind way, to see men behave more like women in the romance he read. His point was that, men don't behave in the way he read in romance, but it doesn't mean that they don't belief in romance at all. And so it was born When Harry Met Sal, a romance for men and women from a men's point of view. The story is pretty simple and clear from the first pages: Harry and Sal met the last day of college, when both of them are ready to start a new life in the Big Apple, both of them freshly graduated from Stanford. Sal needs a lift for New York City, and Harry has a car and he is driving all alone across the country. Both of them are young and free, or almost: Sal had a fling with Harry's best girlfriend, but it was nothing serious from both side and there was a mutual agreement that the story will end with Sal's leaving; Harry is in a 2 years old relationship with Mark, but truth be told he is getting tired, and maybe the move to New York City will help having a clean break. So no, they are not exactly free to jump on each other bones, but there is not actually a real impediment. First difference between man and woman: being Sal the former boyfriend of Harry's best girlfriend would be a very big impediment for a woman, she would be there brooding over the smallest chance that Sal didn't really forget the other woman, a woman to whom, in a way, if Harry was a woman, she would be bound to be honest with, and this would mean not to steal her boyfriend, even if it's really a former boyfriend... and on and on like that, one chance to thousand that in the end a woman is able to clear enough her mind to actually do something with a man she just met... Harry? He was in bed with Sal from night one and for the two following nights till they arrive to NYC. True, Harry did try to put up a bit of resistance, something like, I have a boyfriend, you are straight (since bisexual is not really something Harry understands, or you like girl or you like guy...), but it's soon forgotten as soon as he has a glance to Sal's quite substantial package... Second difference, the bisexual point. A woman would have stressed Sal till death, trying to psychoanalyze him and finding a reason why he can't choose between men and women, she wouldn't have accepted his simple statement that for him there is no difference, since that statement doesn't collide with her idea. Harry? He takes it like it doesn't matter to him, and it really doesn't matter, it's Sal's choice and to him is all right like that, in the moment Sal is with him, and he is a good lover, what happens tomorrow is all another question. Third difference, Sal and Harry have no problem to clearly state each other faults, in particular Sal, always hinting to Harry's ability to talk non stop, but it's like water over rock, it washes down without burning, Harry can pout a bit, but both of them are not abl