The Handsomest Man in the World

by Leddick, David

• ISBN13: 9781560234586
• ISBN10: 156023458X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: Harrington Park Pr

Summary

In the shadow of the 1954 nuclear bomb tests on the Bikini atoll, two sailors begin a tender, passionate affair. Fred is a tall, blond enlisted man; William is his superior officer, and the love affair that blazes between them will carry them halfway around the world: to San Francisco, Manhattan, Fire Island, and Washington, DC. The lovers learn, with fumbling hands and lips, how to satisfy one another, but the erotic heat of their sexual explorations is matched by the tension of their dangerous situation. Can their forbidden love withstand the relentless hostility of the Eisenhower years? On the second night of endless talk he got up from his bed and came to lie across the foot of mine. I was nervous. Cold from nervousness. Cold from fear that some man was finally going to love me. Cold from fear of saying good-bye to a world that was entirely romantic fantasy and boyish sexual experimentation. Fred pulled himself up beside me and took me in his arms. Very slowly

Table of Contents

Bikini bound	p. 3
All about the bomb	p. 8
Back at bikini	p. 14
Hit the beach	p. 18
Party time	p. 25
In Hawaii	p. 30
Fred and Bill cross the sexual barrier	p. 35
To San Diego	p. 40
Coffee Dan	p. 46
Our romance	p. 48
No sex please, we're sailors	p. 57
Some men who slept with other men, No. 1	p. 60
The two-week leave	p. 65
Song	p. 71
Terrible weekends	p. 72
The puzzle box	p. 75
Letters to my mother	p. 90
My nervous breakdown	p. 95
Fred's clothes	p. 100
I waited in San Francisco	p. 102
Three poems	p. 106
Some men who slept with other men, no. 2	p. 108
The trip to Bozeman	p. 112
What is it about the nature of love?	p. 120
The trip to Putnam hill	p. 123
Some men who slept with other men, no. 3	p. 129
Patchin place	p. 132
A little trip to Washington	p. 137
Refusing Fred, No. 1	p. 143
Back in Patchin place	p. 144
My second lover	p. 146
A trip to Fire island	p. 150
A trip to New England	p. 157
The trip to Connecticut with friends	p. 162
Refusing Fred, no. 2	p. 166
Love in the 1950s	p. 168
Death in the 1990s	p. 171
Our last night together	p. 175
A rainy night	p. 179
The aftermath	p. 180
My third lover	p. 184
Whatever happened to Fred?	p. 187
Whatever happened to me?	p. 189
My fourth lover	p. 192
Sexual synopsis	p. 197
The last word	p. 203
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