The Tricky Part: A Boy's Story of Sexual Trespass, a Man's Journey to Forgiveness - Softcover

Moran, Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807084506 ISBN 13: 9780807084502

Verlag: BEACON PR, 2016

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"Marvelous, courageous, and, above all, thoughtful."
--The Washington Post

"A subtly rendered and remarkably even-handed journey toward redemption."
--The Philadelphia Inquirer

"A beautiful book...Fully human, unsettling, and wise."
--Tony Kushner

"[One of] the best LGBT books of all time...A haunting memoir of abuse and redemption."
--Benoit Denizet-Lewis, The Good Men Project

"Martin Moran not only writes unflinchingly about the sexual abuse of a child; he expands it into a meditation on suffering, despair, forgiveness, redemption, and the mysterious workings of grace. He elevates the confessional to the level of art."
--Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours

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Between the ages of twelve and fifteen, Martin Moran had a sexual relationship with an older man, a counselor he'd met at a Catholic boys' camp. Almost thirty years later, at the age of forty-two, he set out to find and face his abuser.

The Tricky Part tells the story of this relationship and its complex effect on the man Moran became. He grew up in an exemplary Irish Catholic family-his great aunt was a cloistered nun; his father, a newspaper reporter. They might have lived in the Denver neighborhood of Virginia Vale, but they belonged to Christ the King, the church and school up the hill. And the lessons Martin absorbed, as a good Catholic boy, were filled with the fraught mysteries of the spirit and the flesh.

Into that world came Bob-a Vietnam vet carving a ranch-camp out of the mountain wilderness, showing the boys under his care how to milk cows, mend barbed wire fence, and raft rivers. He drove a six-wheeled International Harvester truck; he could read the stars like a map. He also noticed a young boy who seemed a little unsure of himself, and he introduced that boy to the secret at the center of bodies.

Told with startling candor and disarming humor, The Tricky Part carries us to the heart of a paradox-that what we think of as damage may be the very thing that gives rise to transformation, even grace.

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• Verlag: BEACON PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0807084506
• ISBN 13: 9780807084502
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 328