Blind Triangle: A Rare Love Story from the Sixties, by Jack Deveny
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Tom Laurel, a failing artist, is tortured by his attraction to his best and only friend, Ray Styles, a gruesome man with an eccentric lifestyle.
In Blind Triangle: A Rare Love Story from the Sixties, Tom can't find comfort with his lover, Soledad Paz, who, like Ray and Tom, is haunted by dark, family secrets.
While the death of Tom's parents was labeled a murder-suicide, the events leading up to it are known only to Tom. Ray carries his own shadowy knowledge of what may end his life. What Soledad shares with the two men is a yearning to transcend her black legacy. But it is Ray, the wealthy Joker run wild, who pulls the three of them into a triangle of mixed sexuality and betrayal.
Together, the three are a volatile mix of shame, devil may care, and impossible schemes. It seems inevitable that someone, perhaps all, shall be hurt...but to what extent and why?
Blind Triangle: A Rare Love Story from the Sixties, by Jack Deveny- Amazon Sales Rank: #3220095 in Books
- Brand: Deveny, Jack
- Published on: 2015-03-24
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .60" h x 5.00" w x 8.00" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 224 pages
About the Author Jack Deveny has previously had poems published and a theater play produced. Born into an environment of substance abuse and violence, he attained a Master's Degree in psychology in the hope of helping others from similar backgrounds. While working in a home for troubled teens he saw himself magnified. Drawing from this as well as from those he met in the counter culture of the sixties, that slim frame of time where only the most lost could exist, he created characters and a story that tells the plight of those struggling to escape their pasts.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. "That is the problem with loving people. . . they are no longer just flesh and blood." By Foster Corbin I owe Grady Harp big time for recommending BLIND TRIANGLE to me. I would have missed the three hours or so I spent with these three characters who make up the doomed love triangle: Ray Styles, a genius with red hair that he wears in an Elvis pompadour to distinguish himself from the hippy culture of 1967; Tom Laurel, a beautiful young artist two years younger than Ray; and Soledad Paz, a black-haired prostitute but oh so much more than that (she only sleeps with wealthy women). The word "prostitute" has such bad connotations. Mr. Deveny has created three completely empathetic characters who consumed me totally in the time it took me to finish this short novel of a little over 200 pages.As always, one fine novel reminds you of another. I immediately thought of what Toni Morrison says in her latest novel GOD HELP THE CHILD about the harm that parents inflict on their children as these star-crossed characters are saddled with the sins of their parents, each in his or her own way. The novels of Tom Spanbauer also came to mind, particularly his latest I LOVED YOU MORE, another fantastic book about another triangle.As you read this novel, you know that these characters will not live happily ever after. The sense of danger and tragedy is everywhere although you hope against hope that all will be well with these three characters who find themselves in an impossible situation. Since anyone who reads the book blurb knows, at the center of this novel is Tommy’s love for Ray. (Perhaps he would have fared better if the novel had been set in the present; but that would have been another story.) He is in a word obsessed with Ray.Mr. Deveny in beautifully-written prose shows tremendous insight into human beings with all their frailties as he speaks so eloquently about love, loss, longing, and sadness. Here is Tommy after he experiences Ray having a petit mal seizure: “We both smiled, but from that moment on he was made of glass. That’s the problem with loving people. Once they become precious to you, they’re no longer just flesh and blood.” And Tom on what he has gained from Ray: “My father had started out life with no family and remained lost, trying hopelessly to free himself in the only ways known to the abandoned. My mother, for all her precious affection for me, could only present to him a love more dangerous than his own desperation. The two of them were crushed in an embrace from which nothing could survive. All of this understanding had come from Ray. Without his love I would have never seen my mother and father like this.” And one more out of so many. Here is Soledad in a conversation with Tom about Ray: “’He made me laugh so that I forgot I was ever sad,’ she said. ‘That was good. But also he knows sadness. I feel it in his body. That is better. Even though he is rich he knows sadness. That makes him wonderful.’”BLIND TRIANGLE is Mr. Deveny’s debut novel. We can only hope that there are many more to follow.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Engaging and Worthwhile Read By 88Poets This love story is likely to open the unsuspecting heart. I liked this story much more than I thought I would. Relationships and their complexities can be tricky in this setting, but not a word of it felt trite or overdone. Although the story takes place in the 60's, I didn't feel mired there. The timelessness of true love and the realization of it is not always easy to capture honestly. Most definitely a love story worth reading - this novel is surprising, tender and worthwhile.Recommended by a friend who raved about it, I felt the same when I finished it. The story remains with me: the litmus test of all good stories.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. `Because she needs you so much, almost as much as I do' By Grady Harp Now and then up pops an artist whose work is new, refreshingly unique, and profoundly beautiful and that makes you wonder why the name is unfamiliar to you. Jack Deveny is that kind of author - he has published poems and a theatrical play (both of which I hope he makes available to what is bound to become a large audience of admirers), but this appears to be his debut novel. It is a book of such emotional power that it may elude those who describe books as `I just couldn't put it down' or `it is a real page turner' and stop commenting at that. But this is a book, at least for this reader, that now languishes at bedside, earmarked and noted in the margins for areas to read again and again - a book so rich I didn't want it to end. Perhaps the power of Jack's writing reflects his degree in psychology, his work with troubled teenagers, or even his own early years being raised in an abusive and drug addled and violent environment. His written voice sounds very youthful, yet he apparently lists the influence of the love and flower atmosphere of the detached personas of the 1960s as a nidus for the formation of this book.Before taking off on the afterburn, the synopsis provided by the author should be stated: `Handsome and moody Thomas Stearns Laurel, a failing artist, is tortured by his attraction to his best and only friend, Raymond Simpson Styles, a man of gruesome appearance and a wildly eccentric lifestyle. Tom can't find comfort with his longtime lover, Soledad Paz, a prostitute whose clients are wealthy women of upper crust Sacramento. Soledad, like Ray and Tom, is haunted by dark, family secrets. But it is Ray, the Joker run wild, who pulls the three of them into a triangle of mixed sexuality and betrayal. The setting is the turbulent sixties. Tom is penniless, but street-wise Soledad knows how to get by. Ray is wealthy, squandering his fortune as he takes risks with Tom on wild drinking escapades. While the death of Tom's parents was officially labeled a murder-suicide, the events leading up to the tragedy is something known only to Tom. Ray carries his own shadowy knowledge of what may prematurely end his life. What Soledad shares in common with the two men is a yearning to transcend her black legacy. Together, the three are a volatile mix of shame, devil may care, and impossible schemes. When Tom first meets Ray, he is too frightened to give voice to his homosexual feelings for fear of losing the one relationship in his life that has brought him some peace. Soledad, intuitive, but with a streak of rage, threatens to divulge Tom's secret. All three have a survival mechanism matched by self-destruction. It seems inevitable that someone, perhaps all, shall be hurt...but to what extent and why?Yes, knowing the outline of the story is important: there are enough bizarre hooks there to pull in throngs of fascinated readers. But what happens when reading BLIND TRIANGLE is insight into the corpus of personalities, the strange way looks attract and repel, the aspects of people alienated for various reasons from the world most people visualize as normal that allows entry for souls who are different, that thread thin line of sexual response that some insecure souls can categorize and use at will depending on the needs of the moment. But enough of lists: to quote, 'The neighborhood kids called her old lady Crandall in somewhat affectionate terms in their various accents of Spanish, Chinese, or homegrown African American. I always loved standing in my room and looking down at the kids playing in the street. They didn't care who was black, yellow, or brown, not yet anyway. And so far they didn't care who was making love to whom or how they were doing it. They were purely in the moment, and for them that moment went on with no apparent end in sight.' Tone? Yes, but that is only a fraction of the power of Jack's writing.Jack takes us into that haze of quasiformed identity we all have faced - it simply was more evident in the drug puffed 60s. But how he handles his three characters (and the subsidiary characters he paints so vividly) so deftly, so gently, so insightfully and so compellingly places him in the company of the greats. Echoes of JD Salinger, Atom Egoyan, José Saramago, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jamie O'Neill, Hart Crane, Jean-Michel Basquiat - blend them together and there is a palpable essence of Jack Deveny. And he is just starting. Some sensitive soul will film this story - but then that might just bruise the tenderness out of it. Read it. Very Highly Recommended. Grady Harp, May 15
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