Larry Duplechan, Author Arsenal Pulp Press $17.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-55152-244-9
Duplechan (Blackbird) revisits the life of gay, black, and sassy Johnnie Ray Rousseau in this tale of love and loss. A legal secretary during the week, the sometimes-lounge singer now croons over dead friends as deacon and soloist at the First...
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Larry Duplechan, Author St. Martin's Press $13.95 (182p) ISBN 978-0-312-08340-3
Young, black and gay, high-school student Johnnie Ray Rousseau has an all-consuming affair with a blond, godlike filmmaker. PW noted that the author ""captures the bouncy exuberance of California adolesence'' while ``exploiting some of the cliches...
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Larry Duplechan, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (264p) ISBN 978-0-312-02650-9
The breezy, hedonistic mood of the typically Californian characters in this arresting, heartwrenching novel is shattered by the AIDS virus. Maggie Sullivan is an instructor at California Fitness in Santa Monica; her husband Daniel is an L.A. show-biz
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Larry Duplechan, Author Alyson Books $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55583-234-6
Despite its lackluster title, Duplechan's atmospheric work reverberates with familial warmth and love, overlaid with robust humor, unaffected sweetness and an earthy Southern sensuality. Though protagonist and narrator, Johnnie Ray Rousseau, is gay,
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