Product Description: Set in a post-apocalyptic America, Tristram Burden s novel tells the story of 17 year old Joshua My Hero. The youth lives out a humdrum existence, struggling to find truth and sense in a Christian-fundamentalist trailer park. But his psychic powers and sexual tastes leave him an outsider of his community, and forced to commit patricide in a final and desperate struggle for self-defence against his father's rage, Joshua escapes into a wasted planet, armed only with an oracular penis, the patronage of an ancient earth spirit sent to rid the planet of all of its ills, and the wisdom of the Tao Teh Ching...
Transcendent Literature Burden, Tristram. "My Hero: A Wild Boy's Tale", Rebel Satori Press, 2007.
Transcendent Literature
Amos Lassen
Rebel Satori Press in new to the field of publishing and is off to an exciting start with Tristram Burden's "My Hero". It's a difficult book to describe because it defies traditional genre classification. "My Hero" combines erotic fiction, mythology, science fiction and Jungian philosophy to give the story of Joshua, a seventeen year old who comes of age in post-apocalyptic America. His life is somewhat dull as he attempts to find truth and meaning while growing up in a Christian fundamentalist trailer park. He is not at home there and the fact that he possesses psychic powers and that his sexual tastes are "beyond the norm" make his journey into the world that much more difficult. The novel reads like poetry which places the book into quite a unique category and as I turned the pages I found myself reveling in the beauty of the English language. In fact, the eroticism of the novel is so beautifully depicted that I was reminded of some of the great erotic novels that were written during Victorian England and were circulated discreetly so that the authors did not risk conviction on "pornographic" charges. Joshua was such a different kind of boy and as he struggled against a demanding father, he was forced to kill his dad in self defense so that he could find his place in the world. Joshua finds himself on the planet which has been "wasted" and using the direction of an ancient spirit, he sets out to find himself. To say anymore would destroy a beautiful reading experience but I will say that this is a book that exemplifies the power of the penis and surprises the reader at every turn. It is a different kind of gay literature that must be experienced as no amount of discussion can ever do "My Hero" justice.
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