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Issue Details: First known date: 1998... 1998 Glove Puppet
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'Johnny grew up in lower-class London with a mother who was both a prostitute and a drug addict. When his mother dies of an overdose, seven-year-old Johnny is befriended by a handsome stranger, Shamash, who saw the incident unfold. Before the police can inquire, Shamash has comforted the boy and, with the complicity of the orphaned Johnny, whisked him back to Australia, in the place of Shamash's own, recently deceased, son.

'Johnny, now become "Vaslav," settles into a comfortable life as the son of a prominent gay man - well known in gay and arts circles alike. Well-loved and taken care of by his new family, Vaslav thinks his past is gone forever. But as he becomes a teenager, Vaslav begins to realize that "Johnny" is still there, deep within him, ready to spend the forbidden currencies of youth and sex in this new world of excess, parties, and pretty boys.

'With the seeds of his own ruin sown deep within him, Vaslav initiates a forbidden love affair, one that threatens to destroy him and all whom he knows and loves.' (Trove)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 1998 .
      Extent: 236p.
      Description: port.
      ISBN: 0140267891 (pbk.)

Works about this Work

Porn Kiddie Damien Barlow , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 155 1999; (p. 107-108)

— Review of Glove Puppet Neal Drinnan , 1998 single work novel
Untitled Ben Zipper , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Screaming Hyena : E-Journal of Queer Writing and Review , August no. 16 1998;

— Review of Glove Puppet Neal Drinnan , 1998 single work novel
Two Tales of Forbidden Love Venero Armanno , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 28 March 1998; (p. 7)

— Review of Glove Puppet Neal Drinnan , 1998 single work novel ; Lulu : A Romance Annamarie Rustom Jagose , 1998 single work novel
The Erotics of Reading Marcus O'Donnell , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian's Review of Books , May vol. 3 no. 4 1998; (p. 26,31)

— Review of Glove Puppet Neal Drinnan , 1998 single work novel ; Vanity Fierce Graeme Aitken , 1998 single work novel
It's Getting Hot and Sweaty on the Main Drag Mark Patrick , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 27 February 1998; (p. 18)

— Review of Glove Puppet Neal Drinnan , 1998 single work novel ; Gay Resort Murder Shock Phillip Scott , 1998 single work novel ; Vanity Fierce Graeme Aitken , 1998 single work novel
Untitled Ben Zipper , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Screaming Hyena : E-Journal of Queer Writing and Review , August no. 16 1998;

— Review of Glove Puppet Neal Drinnan , 1998 single work novel
It's Getting Hot and Sweaty on the Main Drag Mark Patrick , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 27 February 1998; (p. 18)

— Review of Glove Puppet Neal Drinnan , 1998 single work novel ; Gay Resort Murder Shock Phillip Scott , 1998 single work novel ; Vanity Fierce Graeme Aitken , 1998 single work novel
The Erotics of Reading Marcus O'Donnell , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian's Review of Books , May vol. 3 no. 4 1998; (p. 26,31)

— Review of Glove Puppet Neal Drinnan , 1998 single work novel ; Vanity Fierce Graeme Aitken , 1998 single work novel
Two Tales of Forbidden Love Venero Armanno , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 28 March 1998; (p. 7)

— Review of Glove Puppet Neal Drinnan , 1998 single work novel ; Lulu : A Romance Annamarie Rustom Jagose , 1998 single work novel
Porn Kiddie Damien Barlow , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 155 1999; (p. 107-108)

— Review of Glove Puppet Neal Drinnan , 1998 single work novel
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