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The sighting by John Stewart Wynne is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The sighting about?
"I strongly urge anyone with an interest in gay fiction to read John Stewart Wynne's story THE SIGHTING. There is nothing else quite like it, for no other writer has experimented with gay experience in the context of our adolescence in straight America in such a direct, sensual and imaginative manner." (Gordon Montador/Body Politic) " THE SIGHTING is absorbingly disconcerting. The story's 1950s Midwest small town teenage settingfull of randy high school adolescents racing their jalopies to the local drive-in, whose coarse normality is contrasted with a sensitive youth's realization that he is attracted to other boysis gradually invaded by elements from another realm of experienceor, perhaps, another kind of literature...There are sightings of a flying saucer above the town, Bela Lugosi in person appears, and at the climax these two interventions are bizarrely and violently counterpointed against a celebration of sensual love between two boys. The juxtaposition of the surreal and the naturalistic in the denouement is oddly satisfying and miraculously unsentimental in its endorsement of the 'abnormal' relationship." ( Charles Palliser , author of the international bestseller THE QUIN
Who reads The sighting?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- John Stewart Wynne
- Publisher
- New York, New York: Tree Line Books
- Published
- 1978
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780931476006
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.8 / 5 (1,261 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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