Product Description

Moving through city steam rooms, the rugged mountains and estuaries of North Wales, and Italian resorts, the young men in this collection of ten stories make choices: risky sex, new romance and easy understanding, and a mortgage on a semi, or keeping a lid on it all for the sake of family, status, and belief. These sensual and sometimes erotic tales reveal a lucid prose, etched with echoes of the sea, that signals eternity in very different worlds. Full of vital characters and intense physical description."" Booklist

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2345848 in Books
• Published on: 2003-10-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 88 pages

From Booklist
In Welsh Boys Too (2001), Jones packed eight dazzling stories into 92 pages. Now, he jams 10 into four fewer pages, with no diminution in quality. Both books' stories are concerned with being male, gay, and Welsh--an identity in which maleness is a snap compared to the combination of the other two. For as gays adore the sex they embody, the Welsh adore Wales. With its strong Calvinist heritage, however, Wales doesn't love its gays. Welsh laws, basically the United Kingdom's, hence the European Union's, are increasingly on gays' side. Will the culture ever be? That question is brought home, literally, in "The Wedding Invitation," the complex, satisfying heart of this collection. Most of the other stories, full of vital characters and intense physical description, especially of Wales' beauty, are examples of realism. The title story, however, is a smart fantasy about friends exploring an Italian village as distinctive as their homeland, though there is nothing dour about its distinction. Are these the best gay short stories since Tennessee Williams' One Arm (1948)? Ray Olson
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Review
On Welsh Boys Too: "These stories present a cross-section of a new embattled minority within an old one--Welsh gay men.... Jones makes them all vivid and sympathetic."