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A Wind Across The Century: A Gay Romance Novel | 
| Author: R. G. Powers
Publisher: 1st Books Library
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
Buy Used: $10.00
You Save: $9.95 (50%)
Rating:  4 reviews
Media: Paperback
Pages: 224
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5 x 0.6
ISBN: 075963694X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780759636941
ASIN: 075963694X
Publication Date: September 1, 2001
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
A romantic coming-out period piece set in Edwardian England, it is the first fiction written about what is termed a "Bear" in gay male sub-culture. This is a unique novel of self-discovery that every romantic will embrace!
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| Customer Reviews:
This love story is interesting. July 21, 2007
R.Parklane (Tokyo, Japan)
This love story took place in a few weeks in the year 1912. It is a short story but Edward's and Heath's love story managed to be credible, deeply meaningful and touching. Edward and Heath could not be more different, one a scholar and the other just a lowly gardener. Intellectually they ought to be miles apart but Heath is definitely the wiser one in his natural, unpretentious and almost simple and wild ways. Their story is as the writer says is just to have the courage to love freely.
The writings is pretty poetic, the romance and sex scenes are sexy without being explicit. The side characters are interesting too.
However a few weak points. I wish the writer could have expanded on the complex character, Herbert instead of introducing a hetero relationship in the midst of the main love story. This hetero love story is just pointless and annoying as it pops up now and then interrupting the flow of the story. Also the writing could do with better editing as some parts are referring to the wrong subject.
Still this "bear" love story is interesting and uplifting as the forty two year old Edward finds the courage to embrace his true self and lover.
A Nice Love Story November 25, 2006
Jane (Canada)
This was my first 'bear' story and it was a nice read. Good dialogue and introduction of characters. Characters and story well-developed. Sensitive main characters. I loved the dialogue between Edward and Heath. Very touching.
 Awesome book March 9, 2006
Gary D. Johnson (Phoenix)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I thought this book was one of the best I hav read. I love reading about gay characters from the past. This was about "bears" which I found quite intriguing. It was sexy without bein poronographic. I would recommend this book
Prophetic and Subtle April 3, 2003
J.C. Hudson
3 out of 13 found this review helpful
As an interviewer, I was astonished at how much R.G. Powers reads like his novels; unapologetic and yet subtle, kind. I interviewed him because I wanted to know him, to know the man who exposed a century, and brought down ambivalence with a vengeance. "A Wind Across the Century" is a moving journey of the soul, ending in a new life--J.H. Hudson
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