Labour of Love

<p class=ql-align-justify><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Boys Like Us Trilogy Book 3</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> - Sometimes the muse has the last word. Peter McGehee's acclaimed two novels </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Boys Like Us</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Sweetheart</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> introduced us to Zero MacNoo and his wonderfully zany circle of friends family lovers and ex-lovers as they struggle to get through life (and death) in the age of AIDS. Peter McGehee died shortly after finishing the manuscript of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Sweetheart</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. But Doug Wilson his long-time lover companion editor and yes muse carries on in </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Labour of Love</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> for a final installment of the remarkable trilogy.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Labour of Love</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a testimony to living bravely. Wilson uncannily matches much of McGehee's light-hearted but not shallow tone and temperament. Though primarily a romantic farce it is as wise and a little darker than the first installments. It covers the adventures of dying lovers anti-gay-bashing demonstrations in the streets of Toronto the obnoxious attentions of Zero's Arkansas kinfolk tumbles in the sack triumphs of a drag queen in a courtroom and wild cross-border journeys (such as in a borrowed courier van driven by a competent and lusty lesbian pal).</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Labour of Love</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is the title and the achievement of Wilson's first and final novel; it too was published posthumously. This new edition is accompanied by introductions from Dr Raymond-Jean Frontain and long-time friend and fellow-artist Jeffrey Canton.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A genuinely delightful gay domestic comedy so full of tangy dialogue and wacky situations that it screams for the stage or better yet the screen. - </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Booklist</em></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)></span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Labour of Love</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is more a testimony to living bravely than a cry of despair. Wilson uncannily matches much of McGehee's light-hearted but not shallow tone and temperament. - Stan Persky</span></p><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Accomplishes what may seem impossible: a humorous romp in the face of widespread death. - <em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Library Journal</em></p><p><br></p>