Desmond: A Novel of Love and the Modern Vampire - Couverture souple

Dietz, Ulysses G

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ISBN 10 : 1555834701 ISBN 13 : 9781555834708

Editeur : Alyson Publications Inc, 1998

Synopsis

Although Desmond Beckwith is an financial wizard with and international investment empire, a circle of supportive friends, and an elegant New York town house, her feels isolated and cut off from humankind. With good reason; Desmond is a 250-year-old vampire. For two centuries he has lived in New York, looking vainly for love and seeking to satisfy his twin thirsts for the blood and sex of mortal men. Into Desmond’s lonely life stumbles Tony Chapman, an unemployed museum curator, down on his luck and one step away from being out on the streets. Brutalized by the unforgiving nature of New York City, Tony is on the edge of despair when he meets this darkly handsome older man in the smoky dimness of a Greenwich Village bar. To their mutual astonishment, Tony turns Desmond’s protected little world on its head and unlocks pieces of Desmond’s past lives and loves that were deeply buried in memory. From Georgian England to, revolutionary France, from a rarefied upbringing in rural Berkshire to a grand tour during the Age of Reason, Desmond travels back over the centuries and learns to find new meaning in his past. Desmond may be immortal, but he is not inhuman, and he must find a way to come to grips with his eternal life that includes both his human lover and his acceptance of who—and what—he himself is. | Ulysses G. Dietz is curator of decorative arts at the Newark Museum. He lives in New Jersey. This is his first novel. [Descriptif repris du livre par FreelancerFR]

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Desmond Beckwith is not a happy man. A financial wizard with an international investment empire, he's also in love with his lifelong-but-straight friend Roger. At forty-five, in spite of a circle of supportive friends and an elegant New York townhouse full of antiques, he feels isolated and cut off from humankind. And with good reason. Desmond Beckwith is a two-hundred-fifty-year-old vampire. For nearly two centuries he has lived in New York, looking vainly for love and seeking to satisfy his twin thirsts for blood and sex in those places where men of his kind have always met to find release and solace. Into Desmond's sheltered, lonely world stumbles Tony Chapman, an unemployed museum curator, down on his luck and one step away from being out on the streets. Brutalized by the unforgiving nature of New York City, Tony is on the edge of despair when he meets this darkly handsome older man in the smoky dimness of a Greenwich Village bar. To their mutual astonishment, Tony proceeds to turn Desmond's protected little world on its head, and to unlock pieces of Desmond's past lives and loves that were deeply buried in Desmond's memory.

Biographie de l'auteur

Ulysses Grant Dietz grew up in Syracuse, New York, where his Leave it to Beaver life was enlivened by his fascination with vampires, from Bela Lugosi to Barnabas Collins. He studied French at Yale, and was trained to be a museum curator at the University of Delaware. A curator for thirty-two years, Ulysses has never stopped writing fiction for the sheer pleasure of it. He created the character of Desmond Beckwith in 1988 as his personal response to Anne Rice’s landmark novels. Alyson Books released his first novel, Desmond, in 1998. Vampire in Suburbia is his second novel. Ulysses lives in suburban New Jersey with his partner of 37 years and their two teenaged children. By the way, the name Ulysses was not his parents’ idea of a joke: he is a great-great grandson of Ulysses S. Grant, and his mother is the President’s last living great-grandchild. Every year on April 27 he gives a speech at Grant’s Tomb in New York City.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Alyson Publications Inc
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1555834701
• ISBN 13: 9781555834708
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 332
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible