I Am Not Raymond Wallace

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ISBN: 9781912620227

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Attribute name	Attribute value
Author	Kenyon, Sam
Pub Date	15/09/2022
Binding	Paperback
Pages	290

Publisher: UNKNOWN

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The debut novel from the writer of the RSC's 'Miss Littlewood' is a heart-rending and mending story spanning generations, told with precision-tooled prose, sharply-imagined settings and compassionately-observed characterisation.

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Manhattan, 1963: weeks before the assassination of President Kennedy, fresh-faced Raymond Wallace lands in the New York Times newsroom on a three-month bursary from Cambridge University. He soon discovers his elusive boss, Bukowski, is being covertly blackmailed by an estranged wife, and that he himself is to assist the straight-laced Doty on an article about the 'explosion of overt homosexuality' in the city. On an undercover assignment, a secret world is revealed to Raymond: a world in which he need no longer pretend to be something or someone he cannot be; a world in which he meets Joey.

Like so many men of his time and of his kind, Raymond faces a choice between conformity, courage and compartmentalisation. The decision he makes will ricochet destructively through lives and decades until-in another time, another city; in Paris, 2003-Raymond's son Joe finally meets Joey. And the healing begins.