Glass Arcade

by Adrian Brooks

Back in the 1930s he had seen his parents shot to death by the Nazis but the nightmare had not ended there, for Michael Kurtz had been given a "reprieve," sent to become one of Herr Lorken's boy courtesans in a brother catering to all the appetites of the elite officers of the Third Reich. Here, as a boy, Michael had to learn survival...and submission to a new way of life, the life of a painted slave in a perfumed palace for soldiers. Now, as a man, he must learn to face his past, to remember the bullets and the pain...and the surprising tenderness he found at the hands of the enigmatic Herr Lorken, the magnificent lord of the fantastic Glass Arcade.

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First published June 1, 1980

Reviews

[Raye Evangelion · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm shocked that this book isn't better known. As poetic as it is disgusting. Well-structured frame narrative, but rushed at the end. It felt like Brooks had a deadline to meet when writing the second half of the novel. Like Michael Kurtz, I will be digesting this story for a long time.