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Tolerance Trilogy debuts with a lively, romantic story about overcoming differences and dealing with the realities of love, friendship, money, and race in America
Volume I of Bruce K Beck’s Tolerance Trilogy, THIS IS GOD’S COUNTRY
New York, New York. April 1, 2019
Two baby boys are born on the same winter day in a small city in North Carolina. On opposite sides of town. When they meet—at university, not in their hometown—they fall in love and start planning a life together. Kit, the white boy, is rich; Gabriel, the black boy, is poor. Can they make their relationship work? Can they build a productive—and safe—life together?
Not back home, they decide. But New York City is another place entirely, and it draws them to it like a magnet. Their new life is happy and satisfying—with lots of bumps in the road, of course: a forced separation because of career choices, rampant promiscuity during their time apart, the deaths of friends in the 1980s, career ups and downs. But all of it they take in their stride until one phone call changes everything.
When Kit and Gabriel are summoned back to their hometown in 1990, they haven’t an inkling of the challenges they’ll face, or the transformation of their lives that is about to unfold. Readers get to join our heroes as they make tough choices and learn how richly rewarding a life of service can be. THIS IS GOD’S COUNTRY is tender, funny, erotic, romantic, honest, and timely.
Praise for Volume I of the Love Trilogy:
“Bruce K Beck’s debut novel brings us a naturally gifted and richly imaginative storyteller whose characters leap off the page. YOU’RE SURE TO FALL IN LOVE sweeps us back into a Summer of Love that is sure to remind readers of how it feels to be young and starry-eyed. I didn’t want this book to end.”
—James Gavin (author of Is That All There Is?: The Strange Life of Peggy Lee, and Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horn)
Praise for Volume II of the Love Trilogy:
“Bruce K Beck’s LOVE AND THE EPIDEMIC is a beautiful, clear-eyed memory of friends lost to AIDS. Without sentiment, and with deep respect, the narrator remembers their lives vividly and joyfully. Beck brings us to the edge of grief, but at last he helps us see not just loss, but rather the great love and friendship that marked one of our darkest times. The second volume in his trilogy, it can be read on its own, but you will be compelled to read the complete work. If memory is a solace, Beck’s stories are a compelling and human response to what memory allows that is valuable and urgent in history.”
—Philip F Clark (author of The Carnival of Affection)
New from Audacity Books is Bruce K Beck’s THIS IS GOD’S COUNTRY, the first volume of his Tolerance Trilogy, now available in ebook, hardcover, and paperback, on Amazon and worldwide.
THIS IS GOD’S COUNTRY
Audacity Books, New York ©2019
ebook ISBN 978-1-7329475-1-1 $5.99
paperback ISBN 978-1-7329475-2-8 $15.95
hardcover ISBN 978-1-7329475-3-5 $24.95
www.audacitybooks.com/gods-country
Readers of gay fiction—both romance junkies and those who like a little edge to their romance—are invited to visit us on the web at www.audacitybooks.com. Please subscribe to keep up with our latest offerings and to receive a free download of YOU’RE SURE TO FALL IN LOVE—THE COOKBOOK (©2017, ISBN 978-0-9991182-4-5, $2.99, and available widely in paperback, ISBN 978-0-9991182-3-8, $7.95) YOU’RE SURE TO FALL IN LOVE, indeed, with this slender volume written by Bruce K Beck as a companion to his delightful novel. THE COOKBOOK gives readers step-by-step instructions for preparing all the dishes that appear in the story. Inspired by summer in Provincetown, Massachusetts, but suitable for many locales and occasions, these are dishes with big flavors that are sure to please.
About the Author:
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Bruce K Beck is both a writer and an accomplished chef. Before turning to fiction he authored PRODUCE: A FRUIT AND VEGETABLE LOVERS’ GUIDE, which was called “gorgeous” by The New York Times, “a dazzler” by Bon Appetit, and “the most spectacular food book of the year” by The Boston Globe. His next book was THE OFFICIAL FULTON FISH MARKET COOKBOOK, which was called “invaluable” by Jacques Pépin, and “a treasure” by Irene Sax of Newsday. And Rex Reed said, “. . .you’ll love this book. It’s like a movie!” |
About the Book:
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THIS IS GOD’S COUNTRY, Volume I of Bruce K Beck’s Tolerance Trilogy. Readers of the Love Trilogy will welcome back Bruce K Beck’s voice—generous and irreverent in equal measure. But this time the characters and their journeys are quite different from Bobby and Sunshine. This time our heroes have to confront bigotry and intolerance head-on. This time they must fight for their very survival in a town—in a nation—that is slow to change.
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