Venus As a Boy

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Summary: ~
Review: This book is Golden, I read all night and didn't even notice.
The writing makes it seem like a dream.
But it's so fantastical it may all be true...
I kind of wonder if.. think that it is, but I don't want to go searching & risk breaking the illusion..
You will fall in love with him.
You'll wish you could go to Orkney & let him make you see the orchards & angels too.

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Summary: this beauty within..................
Review: To love and the ability to give love in stranger than strange contexts, is a beautiful experience.
Moved me till all is 'gold'

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Summary: Weird and wonderful
Review: Why haven't more people read and reviewed this book???

This is the story of a boy with a gift - the gift to touch people with love, giving them visions of heaven.

He is generous with his gift, offering his body up to be used and abused, perhaps because he knows how good receiving that love feels, having seen the visions once himself.

However, while he's able to give love to others, the love he desires remains elusive to him, and though he goes through life hopeful of getting that feeling back, we know it's too late as he is telling his story from his death bed where he is slowly turning into gold.

This book could well be a modern-day fairy tale, apart from that fairy tales are not usually associated with harsh reality and squalid backdrops.

Despite its sordid "surroundings", this is a beautiful book.