Simple Man

by Ruadhán J. McElroy

Peter West is amazingly well-adjusted for somebody in his he was castrated at the age of eight in the Summer of Love and raised by the "normal" member of a family of eccentrics and circus people. In this tranche de vie opus a castrato singer in the late Twentieth Centiury that takes the reader from a bohemian commune in 1960s California to the early days of the Internet, in a tome that took six years of his life to complete, singer, painter, and writer Ruadhan J McElroy addresses the concepts of identity and masculinity in a series of vignettes wherein it is one's conduct rather than one's apparent anatomy that determines one's sense of self, and without question.

268 pages, Paperback

Published July 20, 2007

About the author

Ruadhán is a musician, painter, and the author of two novels and a long-time blogger and web-diarist. He was born in Toledo, Ohio, and raised predominantly by British grandparents; he was educated at a Felician school until grade Seven, when his father and step-mother relocated the family to rural Michigan. In addition to fiction, he has written short pieces of Hellenic polytheist mythology for the newsletter HE EPISTOLE and maintains the polytheist blog, Of Thespiae. Since 2009, his primary creative focus has been on his music.