THE PARK BENCH - Henry Von Doussa - Bog

Lennie and Dan have been together five years - five years of love and trouble. But they split up, and Lennie begins to trawl the parks, the streets, the night.'...von Dousa writes beautifully ... with the cold water clarity of the unillusioned, unhurriedly and well.' - WH Chong, Australian Book Review'...consistently edgy and evocative, and surprisingly poignant ... a bold and uncompromising take on a subject that gets little fictional attention.' - Cameron Woodhead, The Age'...sassy, mournful, yearning and clear-eyed ... profound shared human moments ... inescapable in its contradictions.' - Joan Nestle, Traffic, Quotidian Queer'a powerful, bittersweet paean to that 'shrouded community of strangers' ... a brutally honest ... compassionate work ... passages of sheer beauty and painful truth.' - Ian Purcell