Carnal Sacraments de Perry M. Brass

Carnal Sacraments: A Spiritual Thriller

Perry M. Brass

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 iun 2007

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Futurist Faustian pact: 2075. Jeffrey Cooper, Alabama-raised design superstar in Americanized Germany, is 78 but looks 40 years younger due to the perks of his stressful job. Meeting an impulsive, gifted man will destroy the life he has painfully built for himself, but allow him to reclaim his own soul.

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A pioneer of gay literature (ForeWord magazine), poet/novelist Perry Brass has published 14 books for lgbt readers, including the classics How to Survive Your Own Gay Life, The Lover of My Soul, The Harvest, Angel Lust, Warlock, and The Substance of God. His newest novel is Carnal Sacraments, A Historical Novel of the Futureone of the most unusual novels Ive read in years, said Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco. He has been a finalist 6 times for Lambda Literary Awards, and was given an IPPY Award from Independent Publisher for Warlock, A Novel of Possession. He has been featured in 25 anthologies, and his numerous poetry collaborations with composers have been performed at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, and in London, Amsterdam, Berlin, and Tokyo. He lives in the cultural and literary epicenter of New York, the Bronx, where he reads, writes, and watches the Hudson River. He can be reached through his website, www.perrybrass.com, or at MySpace/PerryBrassbooks.

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No one would know his real age. Or how he felt inside. Or what he had to do to stay the way he was. In the last quarter of the 21st cen-tury, Jeffrey Cooper, an Alabama-raised, executive design star living in Americanized Germany, has made a Faustian pact with the huge global economic system running the world. The system will keep him young and razor-sharp, as long as he can stay on top of do his job and keep profits high. But stress from work and the congested, hyper-competitive life around him is killing Jeffrey. Can he keep his stress level a secret from the system itself, his co-workers, and even his own seductive, very daddyish German therapist who has told him that when all else fails, there are angels who can save him, and often we dont know who they are? But one will appear in Jeffreys life. At first, he seems to be the Devil himself, offering every kind of excitement, even offering Jeffrey back his own lost soulbut will this younger, mysterious and attractive man end up killing Jeffrey, or saving him? In Carnal Sacraments, Perry Brass has created a parable of our time and the future, of an emerging international business culture based on war, and of intense sexuality as a key to religious experience and personal salvation. Author of The Harvest, Warlock, and Angel Lust, Perry Brass continues his exploration of the joining of sexuality, consciousness, and spirituality in this very poignant and mature novel.