The Abomination (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375724398)

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.

Author: Paul Golding
ISBN-10: 0375724397
ISBN-13: 9780375724398
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 05/14/2002
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.12w x 0.96d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 07/07/2002 pg. 20
Entertainment Weekly 09/12/2003 pg. 158