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The Decade of Blind Dates
Richard Alther

Richard Alther-The Decade of Blind Dates

  • Published: July, 2008
  • Format: Perfect Bound Softcover, Dust Jacket Hardcover, ebook
  • Pages: 284
  • Size: 6x9
  • ISBN: 9780595467297

Richard Alther is a professional writer, painter, and father who competes nationally as a Masters Swimmer. After years of far-flung adventures as an emerging gay man, Alther divides his time between homes in Southern California and Vermont with his partner.

Peter Bauman, a divorced father, negotiates his way through his new gay identity and his quest to find the perfect partner among a colorful cast of characters in The Decade of Blind Dates. Plunging into the world of personal ads, Richard Alther depicts the laughter, challenges, and devastation that come with the search for love and romance in the second half of life in this novel.




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Submitted by: Scott Wicks  
2/11/2009 5:18:27 PM PT
Location:Cornell University
Occupation:Librarian

“THINK YOU’VE READ IT BEFORE? YOU HAVEN’T…Peter has everything. A loving ex-wife, successful, happy and healthy children, financial freedom to pursue a career as a painter. But finding that one special person who would share his dreams as well as his blanket…Think you’ve read it before? You haven’t. Not this story. Powerful passages left me breathless as Peter painted his fears and guilt, his painful memories. Strangely, now they seem my memories, too.”


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