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Whether describing having his hair styled by a gang of eighth-grade bullies; staging a Satan festival in the main hall of Greenvale High; or indulging in inappropriate sex with a caregiver, Kevin Bentley writes with a pen dipped in blood, indignation, and grim whimsy. The autobiographical stories and personal essays in Let's Shut Out the World focus on different pivotal periods and characters in the author's life, from a twisted youth in Texas, to the glittering excesses and sober spirals of life and love in San Francisco in the 1970s, to the monogamous contentment of an unexpected middle age. The narrator of these stories has man trouble aplenty, butting heads and other body parts with ...

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Whether describing having his hair styled by a gang of eighth-grade bullies; staging a Satan festival in the main hall of Greenvale High; or indulging in inappropriate sex with a caregiver, Kevin Bentley writes with a pen dipped in blood, indignation, and grim whimsy. The autobiographical stories and personal essays in Let's Shut Out the World focus on different pivotal periods and characters in the author's life, from a twisted youth in Texas, to the glittering excesses and sober spirals of life and love in San Francisco in the 1970s, to the monogamous contentment of an unexpected middle age. The narrator of these stories has man trouble aplenty, butting heads and other body parts with everyone from fundamentalist Christians to a slew of "fauxmosexuals" and elusive boyfriends. Bitingly funny and at times harrowingly sad, Let's Shut Out the World provides the back story and sequel to the author's popular memoir Wild Animals I Have Known.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781931160339
  • Publisher: Green Candy Press
  • Publication date: 5/28/2005
  • Pages: 203
  • Product dimensions: 5.58 (w) x 8.50 (h) x 0.65 (d)

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 11, 2005

    WOW!!! What a World

    Kevin Bentley grew up in El Paso Texas during the late sixties and early seventies. In 1977 he fled his dysfunctional family to make a life for himself in the gay Mecca of San Francisco. Bentley has been HIV positive since 1982, but remains asymptomatic due to two defective or variant genes that appear to delay the progression of HIV. Over the years he¿s experimented with drugs, thugs and straight boys, had more sex than any five people might expect, lost two lovers to AIDS, found marginal success in the literary world, and discovered martial bliss with his HIV negative partner of eight years, Paul. LET¿S SHUT OUT THE WORLD is a series of striking vignettes that create a beautifully textured portrait of Bentley¿s life so far. Through it all the author has remained skeptically optimistic, and steadfastly determined to see where life will lead him. His sense of humor, even in the face of unforgiving tragedy, remains sharp and wildly entertaining, while his grasp of life¿s ironies will keep his readers riveted to every page. Clearly, Bentley has seen it all, and lived to tell the tale. His is a story that many of us in our late forties and early fifties can relate to. We are survivors and this book is a strong testament to survival. Bentley¿s memoir is a no-holds-barred look back at gay life over the last thirty years, and provides the next generation of gay explorers with an engrossing history of hedonistic life after Stonewall. I too am from El Paso, and I knew Kevin Bentley quite well back in the early seventies. In fact, I¿d be willing to bet the farm that I am the character known as Art Zelinsky, briefly mentioned in the chapter titled, ¿Servo-Robots in Bondage.¿ I have to admit, Bentley savagely captures the essence of the screaming little queen I was at the time. I lost touch with Kevin after he moved to San Francisco, but after completing his fascinating book, I feel as if I¿ve re-discovered an old and long-lost friend. If you read one book this year, let it be Kevin Bentley¿s, LET¿S SHUT OUT THE WORLD. It is most definitely a five (*****) star experience.

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