A brother's touch
- Title
- A brother's touch
- Description
- Angus Rivers, a young Vietnam veteran from upstate New York, ventures to the city to discover the truth about his teenage brother’s death. Earl, a gay sex worker, has been found dead of a heroin overdose on the West Side piers (a notorious cruising ground), his body “stuffed into a rusty oil drum”. This mass-market crime paperback depicts the New York gay scene as a sleazy underworld of addicts, hustlers, self-serving politicians and corrupt priests. But it also introduces gay politics and campaigning, through the activities of the ‘GLP’ or Gay Liberation Party. Positively reviewed in the ‘New York Times’ on publication, Owen Levy’s debut went on to sell very well. His second novel, ‘Goodbye Heiko, Goodbye Berlin’, was published in 2015.
- Creator
- Owen Levy
- Location
- New York (NY)
- Publisher
- Pinnacle Books (Firm)
- Date
- 1982
- Tags
- Cruising (LGBTQ+ Culture)
- Gay Fiction
- Gay Liberation
- Gay Men
- Gay Mystery And Detective Fiction
- LGBTQ+ Fiction
- LGBTQ+ Mystery And Detective Fiction
- LGBTQ+ Sex Workers
- Marines
- New York (NY)
- New York Times
- Vietnam War (1961-1945)
- Rights
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