- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster (1 April 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0671027204
- ISBN-13: 978-0671027209
- Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 16 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,736,524 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Walter Vatter A Different Light Bookstore Michael Jensen's "Frontiers" has all the "bells and whistles" of a deluxe adventure story: a racing narrative, high drama, vivid images, keen dialogue, even hot sex! I predict John Chapman finds a permanent place on the ever-burgeoning list of gay-positive characters from literature.
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Clinging to his dream of building a future for himself on the Western frontier, John Chapman, a young sexual outlaw in late-eighteenth-century America, is rescued from death by a frontiersman who changes the course of his life and teaches him the true meaning of survival.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A fun read,
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This review is from: Frontiers (Hardcover)
Well, this book was not one I would have picked on my own, but I was surprised and found it to be quite fun and offered an interesting twist. It is nice to see the traditional gay theme being interwoven into a different setting - the 'old west'. Although I found the ending to be somewhat overdramatized - I kept thinking that this guy watched too many Wild Wild West and Lone Ranger episodes - and finding it interesting that two "gay" men would find themselves together in the middle of nowhere, the story kept me intrigued.I hope that this is a beginning of more stories containing infusions of gay themes within historical contexts.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Reader beware!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Frontiers (Hardcover)
I read a review before purchasing "Frontiers" which promoted the book as a modern-day Fennimore-esque novel with a wonderful gay twist. Wow ... what a let down. The characters were thin (I didn't for a moment believe such people could ever exist), the plot was transparent (not much happens that you can't predict), and the characters all definitely have an anachronistic 20th century sensibility. The main character, John, is a whiny wimp who never would have survived the frontier.But even those sins might be forgiveable, had the style lived up to (or even approached) James Fennimore Cooper's way of story-telling. I planned to and wanted very much to like this novel, but it did NOT live up to its hype. Sorry, but thumbs down and save your dough.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
A major disappointment,
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This review is from: Frontiers (Hardcover)
I read this book before I saw all the reviews here and I'm wondering if we're all talking about the same novel. The one I read was formulaic and totally unremarkable. Compared to some really excellent novels set on the frontier and featuring gay characters (The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon or The Rest of the Earth), Frontiers is pretty lame--lowest common denominator fiction, written as if it wanted to be a screenplay. I never believed for a second that these characters lived in the 1700s, what with all the late 20th century pop psychology running through the narration. Within 20 pages of the end, I simply stopped reading. I was so bored with the characters and knew exactly what would happen next. If you like contrived, anachronistic historical fiction with tons of gratuitous sex and violence, then Frontiers might be right up your alley.
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