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    The Brothers Bishop

    By Bart Yates

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    From the Alex Award–winning author of Leave Myself Behind: A “smoothly written . . . exploration of issues of fathers and sons, forgiveness and acceptance” (Booklist).
     
    Tommy and Nathan Bishop are as different as two brothers can be. Carefree and careless, Tommy is the golden boy who takes men into his bed with a seductive smile and turns them out just as quickly. No one can resist him—and no one can control him.
     
    Nathan is all about control. At thirty-one, he is bitter beyond his years. For while Tommy left home for New York City, Nathan stayed behind, teaching high school English in their provincial seaside hometown, simmering in his loneliness and reminders of their ruined family history.
     
    Now, Tommy has returned for the summer, bringing his sexual powder keg of an entourage—and the distant echoes of his family’s tumultuous past—with him. And when one of Nathan’s troubled students begins visiting the house, the fuse is lit on a dangerously unstable situation.
     
    The Brothers Bishop is a touching, tattered tapestry of familial love, hatred, and emotional wreckage from an author whose “voice is more than just honest or original; it’s real” (The Plain Dealer).
     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateJul 1, 2006
    ISBN9780758282521
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    • 3/5
      In this heart-wrenching and well written book, Yates esplores very dark themes portraying powerful and sometimes obnoxious characters (they made quite poor decisions!)Bart Yates has become one of my favorite authors.
    • 5/5
      Okay, serious spoiler alert! OHMYGOD! Did Bart have to kill of my favorite character? Did he have to commit suicide? Did he have to run off to swim in the ocean and never come back? That sucks! But I guess Yates couldn't find any other way to get Tommy out of the rape charge, after he fell for one of his brother's students. I liked this one ALOT better than Yates last book (Leave Myself Behind). The characters were real and vulnerable and I easily pictured them in my head. They came alive. I gave his first book high marks, however, because it not only had a depth as far as characters, settings and feelings went, but also because it was an enjoyable book. It made me laugh. This one did no such thing. It's much darker. Much more serious. Of course, the story is being told by a very serious man, Nathan. The background on Nathan and Tommy's childhoods was just as vivid at the present day storyline.On a scale of 1 to 10, a 9.
    • 3/5
      Not as enjoyable as Leave Myself Behind, Yates' first novel. Mainly because the first-person narrator is such an unsympathetic, unpleasant man. The situation and the outcomes are much more complex, however.
    • 5/5
      Nathan are Tommy are brothers, but totally different, Tommy carefree and adored by all, while Nathan is the complete opposite; yet they are very close and dearly love one another, pulled close together by the belligerent and abusive behaviour of their father, and the tragic loss of their mother. They also share a dark secret that over shadows their lives. Tommy visits his brother at the family cottage by the sea, where Nathan now lives alone. Accompanying Tommy are his current boyfriend Philip, and their married friends Camille and Kyle. Camille and Kyle enjoy an uncertain marriage, Kyle not being as straight as he thinks, and all the male company is a bit too much for him. Then there is innocent fifteen year old Simon, one of Nathan's remedial students, who becomes a regular visitor; and so the seeds of trouble are sown. It all starts out as a rather chaotic but carefree farce, with bickering, jealousy and love, until the attractions of Simon become too much for Tommy. When the trouble all blows up, disaster inevitably follows.Bart Yates very quickly establishes his characters, and one is drawn in right form the start. The characters are appealing and individual, especially adorable are Tommy and young Simon. The writing flows easily, is witty and with occasional asides to the reader. It is a funny, but very moving story. There was a large lump in my throat throughout the last two chapters, and before the end I was fighting back the tears.
    • 5/5
      I just have to say first that I love Yate’s writing. It makes his stories come alive for me. Now this story is much different from Yate’s other story [Leave Myself Behind]. Here the narrator is a much older gay man whose reserved and quiet. He lives in the beach house he grew up in and teaching at the local school. He’s just fine with this, and then his younger obnoxious brother comes to visit, bringing his boyfriend and his two married friends. Now the drama starts. Relationships get tangled, people do things they shouldn’t. This is a fairly dark novel: Incest, pedophilia, child abuse, and suicide are all present. I wasn’t sure how I felt after finishing this book. I felt kind of lost in a “how do I react” kind of way. But the more it sat with me the more I decided in the end I really liked the story. The writing is incredible and the characters are realistic. Probably not a book for everyone, but recommended if you enjoy Bart Yate’s other books.
    • 3/5
      Oh, my goodness, this must be the most depressing gay book I've ever read. It has incest, it has underage sex, it has child abuse, it has suicide – AND NOT IN A GOOD WAY. Readable, but not exactly a laugh a minute.