Boys of the Night

John Patrick

Jan 2006 · STARbooks Press

About this ebook

Your bed timing reading just got a little steamier with the re-release of one of John Patrick's more popular anthologies. Boys of The Night presents a batch of sultry tales of sordid and curious men who wander at night, looking for pleasure with any willing young lad they come across. Boys of the Night depicts a lust and obsession so deep within that only the cover of night presents a reasonable safe chance to act. In addition to hot fiction, this anthology offers “real like stories” from hustlers, strippers and club kids. Some of the contributors include Leo Cardini, Edmund Miller, Ken Anderson and bert McKenzie. Also included are “The Real Thing,” a novella by Frank Brooks, and “Love for Sale,” a memoir by William Cozad.

Ratings and reviews

Would have given 5 States but some of this book was maudlin. Great value for money the good stories outdated the bad.

About the author

John Patrick was a prolific, prize winning author of fiction and non fiction. One of his short stories, “The Well,” was honored by PEN American Center as one of the best of 1987. That story is reprinted in this anthology. His stories and novels, and the anthologies he edited, as well as his non fiction works, including Legends, Taboo, Barely Legal, and The Best of the Superstars series, continue to gain him new fans every day. One of his most famous short stories appears in the Badboy collection Southern Comfort and another appears in the collection The Mammoth Book of Gay Short Stories.A divorced father of two, the author was a longtime member of the American Booksellers Association, the Publishing Triangle, the Florida Publishers' Association, American Civil Liberties Union, and the Adult Video Association. He lived in Florida, where he passed away on October 31, 2001.