Pulling Taffy

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Fiction. Gay / Lesbian Studies. Moving from mid-nineties Boston, to post-grunge Seattle, to Giuliani's New York, Sycamore's debut novel is about searching for home and not necessarily finding it. D. Travers Scott calls PULLING TAFFY "a sharp and sparkling picaresque of queens and k-holes, grandmothers and tricks, friends and freaks. If David Lynch and David Wojnarowicz created a rebuttal to Will and Grace, it could very well be this book. Sycamore's keen eye reveals the everygay as not merely absurd but ...
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Overview


Fiction. Gay / Lesbian Studies. Moving from mid-nineties Boston, to post-grunge Seattle, to Giuliani's New York, Sycamore's debut novel is about searching for home and not necessarily finding it. D. Travers Scott calls PULLING TAFFY "a sharp and sparkling picaresque of queens and k-holes, grandmothers and tricks, friends and freaks. If David Lynch and David Wojnarowicz created a rebuttal to Will and Grace, it could very well be this book. Sycamore's keen eye reveals the everygay as not merely absurd but grotesque. Like good drugs, Sycamore's writing leaves me craving more." Likewise Edmund White writes, "I admire the candor and the reticence in this beautiful, anguished, funny novel. I have seen the future, and it is PUILLING TAFFY."
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Editorial Reviews

Annie Sprinkle
Each chapter of Pulling Taffy reads like a stack of Nan Goldin color photos come to life. The exuberant rhythm of Matt Bernstein Sycamore's over-the-top honesty sent me into an erotic trance.
—Prostitute/Porn Star turned Sexologist/Author
D. Travers Scott
Matt Bernstein Sycamore's fiction debut is a sharp and sparkling picaresque of queens and k-holes, grandmothers and tricks, friends and freaks. If David Lynch and David Wojnarowicz created a rebuttal to Will and Grace, it could very well be this book. Sycamore's keen eye reveals the everygay as not merely absurd but grotesque. Like good drugs, Sycamore's writing leaves me craving more.
—author of Execution, Texas: 1987
Edmund White
I admire the candor and the reticence in this beautiful, anguished, funny novel. I have seen the future and it is Pulling Taffy
—-author of A Boy's Own Story
Kevin Killian
With a reporter's eye and the ear of a spy, Matt Bernstein Sycamore writes, in Pulling Taffy, everything we would never have guessed about being young, available, and high as a kite in a handful of cities at the turn of our mercantile century. He and his book are beyond good and evil, he's Nietzsche Junior.
—author of I Cry Like a Baby and Little Men
Michael Lowenthal
When my senses were first spanked by Matt Bernstein Sycamore's shamelessly frank, hilariously deadpan, flamboyantly raunchy writing, I felt as though I were being woken from a literary slumber. His voice is fresh in both senses of the word: new and impudent.
—author of Avoidance and The Same Embrace
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780971084636
  • Publisher: Suspect Thoughts Press
  • Publication date: 5/28/2003
  • Pages: 224
  • Product dimensions: 5.04 (w) x 7.98 (h) x 0.59 (d)

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 4, 2004

    Great, Funny,

    I loved this book. It is a nice quick read. It is funny, insightful, and will leave you wanting more.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 11, 2004

    Fantastic!

    Pulling Taffy is a bold and extremely engaging novel. Matt Bernstein-Sycamore is a fresh and entertaining new writer who has more flavors than Baskin Robbins, not to mention more nail polish then Revlon!

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