The abomination
by Paul Golding
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"The Abomination chronicles the life of Santiago Moore Zamora, a young man born to a beautiful, emotionally distant Spanish mother and an austere English father. Adrift in a world of nameless one-night stands, living in a London of suffocating hedonism, he remembers his early years in Spain and sudden exile to boarding school in England where two proscribed love affairs set him on a course apart...".
"As Zamora brings to mind his experiences at school - memories of intense passion and cold betrayal - and then the extreme censure of his father, he accepts that even his mother has begun to love him less because of what he has become. 'Strange,' he realizes, 'how one man's imprisonment can, to another, seem like liberation.' The Abomination tells of life lived in innocence, then in alienation, defiance and anger."--BOOK JACKET.
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The abomination
2000, Knopf, Distibuted by Random House
in English
- 1st American ed.
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Cruising the seamy underbelly of London’s gay scene, James Moore Zamora is as eager to repel men as he is to seduce them. Handsome, sophisticated, intelligent, and vain, beneath his immaculately maintained exterior lies an elaborate network of deeply embedded scars from a lifetime filled with betrayal and isolation. Born to negligent, self-absorbed parents and raised among upper crust society on a picturesque Spanish island, at nine-years-old James is sent off to an exclusive Catholic boarding school in England. Met with savageness by his peers, and seduced by the twisted affections of his teachers, he soon develops a self-consciousness that passes for self-awareness and a profound cynicism that masks savage anger. Charged with linguistic precision, brutal honesty, and caustic wit, The Abomination is a disturbing yet electrifying account of one man’s tortured coming of age
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