The witty and intimate story of a young man's search for fulfillment during the cultural and sexual revolution of 1970s New York City Danny Slocum is a gay man in New York at a time of unprecedented sexual freedom. And yet Danny hasn't had a satisfying encounter with another man in years, a plight that drives him to sex therapy. Virgil, Danny's therapist, suggests that Danny work with another man, Joe, who has a similar problem, in the hopes that they can work out their anxieties together. The arrangement brings memories of Danny's bygone relationships bubbling to the surface as he searches his past for where exactly things went wrong, coming to the realization that perhaps what he craves, above all else, is to be whole. Part novel and part memoir, The Confessions of Danny Slocum is a heartfelt, deeply relatable look at sex, love, happiness, and their painful reverse.
"George Whitmore, by drawing in the lines of force that ink sex to family life, fantasy to friendship, has charted the constellation of gay consciousness. He is an extraordinarily honest writer who has dared to tell us the truth about the way we live now."
Edmund White, author of States of Desire: Travels in Gay America
"One comes away from reading this novel strengthened and empowered by heightened self-awareness . . . Whitmore is to be congratulated for writing this fictional, yet intensely personal and absorbing confession."
