Crawling Through Thorns by John Sam Jones
From a Victorian asylum in rural Wales in the early 1970s to the radical politics of HIV in Liverpool during the late 1980s, this is a journey in search of meaning and identity through the territory where sexuality, religion and culture colide. Reprint; first published in October 2008. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
After working in ministry, education and public health for more than thirty years, John Sam Jones lives in semi-retirement with his husband and two Welsh Collies in a small German village a stone's throw from the Dutch border. John realised he was gay as a teenager at the beginning of the 1970s and quickly came to understand that his life would be lived always on the edge - between truth and lies, rejection and ridicule, self- doubt and a search for acceptance. He ultimately chose to negotiate a route through life where honesty and integrity, in an often toxically homophobic society, were not always appreciated. In 2001 he became the first co-chair of the LGB Forum Cymru (which was later renamed Stonewall Cymru), set up to advise the Welsh Government on LGB issues. He studied creative writing at Chester. His collection of short stories - Welsh Boys Too, - was an Honour Book winner in the American Library Association Stonewall Book Awards. His second collection, Fishboys of Vernazza, was short-listed for Welsh Book of the Year which was followed by the novels, With Angels and Furies & Crawling Through Thorns.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781905762361 |
| ISBN 10 | 1905762364 |
| Title | Crawling Through Thorns |
| Author | John Sam Jones |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Parthian Books |
| Year published | 2008-10-17 |
| Number of pages | 480 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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