Skin Deep

by John R. Gordon

Book by Gordon, John R.

256 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1997

About the author

John R. Gordon lives and works in London, England. He is the author of three novels, Black Butterflies, (GMP 1993), for which he won a New London Writers' Award; Skin Deep, (GMP 1997); and Warriors & Outlaws (GMP 2001), both of which have been taught on graduate and post-graduate courses on Race & Sexuality in Literature in the United States. He script-edited and wrote for the world's first black gay television show, Patrik-Ian Polk's Noah's Arc (2005-6). In 2007 he wrote the autobiography of America's most famous black gay porn star from taped interviews he conducted, My Life in Porn: the Bobby Blake Story, (Perseus 2008). In 2008 he co-wrote the screenplay for the cult Noah's Arc feature-film, Jumping the Broom (Logo) for which he received a NAACP Image Award nomination. The same year his short film Souljah (directed by Rikki Beadle-Blair) won the Soho Rushes Award for Best Film.

Reviews

[Genevieve Helene · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the second time that I have read this. The first was many years ago. It was just as good as I remembered. A gritty look at the complexities and realities of relationships, both on a personal and social level.

[Muygal · Rating 4 out of 5]

Even though this was better written than Fagamuffin, I did not like this book as much as I had thought I would.
Also I had to wait an insane amount of time to get this book from TheBookDepository. But still it was a very interesting book and I liked the most the debates that the characters had regarding being gay, being black, and being with a partner of another race.

[Ray Ray · Rating 3 out of 5]

gender loving book based in london.