{"product_id":"i-am-not-raymond-wallace-paperback","title":"I Am Not Raymond Wallace - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSam Kenyon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eManhattan, 1963: weeks before the assassination of President Kennedy, fresh-faced Raymond Wallace lands in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI Am not Raymond Wallace\u003c\/i\u003e is a multi-stranded story of queer redemption spanning multiple generations, told with precision-tooled prose, sharply-imagined settings and compassionately-observed characterisation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 290\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.72 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47403231412402,"sku":"9781912620227","price":19.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/c5548f1db42ebbfea305341a42fd32f1.webp?v=1778134203","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/i-am-not-raymond-wallace-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}