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Michael Downing (Author)
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  • Paperback: 194 pages
  • Publisher: Counterpoint,U.S.; New edition edition (15 Feb 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1582431264
  • ISBN-13: 978-1582431260
  • Product Dimensions: 19.7 x 11.9 x 1.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,122,200 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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A gay couple faces sudden parenthood and the embarrassing truth about their own definitions of "normal" in this novel. Sam and Ed are living the good life: happy, healthy, devoted to each other and their careers, they have no yearning for the joyful mysteries of parenthood. But when eleven-year-old Scot's mother suddenly dies, the couple is determined to make good on a wine-soaked promise made years before. They hang a tire swing in the back yard and call the neighborhood school to arrange enrollment. Scot arrives just in time to start fifth grade - with a pair of lacy white socks in his duffel bag. With wry dialogue, frothy characters, and an offbeat plot, Michael Downing's mastery reaches new heights of brilliance in Breakfast with Scot.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Funny, thought provoking and moving, 7 Feb 2010
By Benjamin (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Breakfast with Scot: A Novel (Paperback)
Sam and Ed, a gay couple around the age of forty, find themselves the legal guardians of eleven year old Scot, the son of Sam's brother's girlfriend. Whilst they know Scot, they are in no way prepared for what is to come when Scot actually arrives along with his make-up bag and other girly paraphernalia. We follow them through the first few months as they try to adapt their professional lives to meet the needs of build a family together.

Breakfast with Scot is a relatively short novel, broken into predominately very short chapters, and reads with great ease and fluency. It is a combination of humorous scenes, wry observation, wit and pathos. It is peopled with some appealing characters, amongst whom Scot shines as adorable. It all makes for a very funny, frequently thought provoking, and occasionally very moving story.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Original, humorous and surprising, 29 Dec 2007
By Son of Nietzsche "Abolish the A.o.C." (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Breakfast with Scot (Paperback)
Extremely amusing (laugh-out-loud in places) and beautifully written, "Breakfast with Scot" is a wonderful, light, read.

Sam and Ed, a typical, neutered, urban-professional gay couple, have eleven-year old Scot deposited on them, after the boy's mother dies of an overdose. Scot is unburdened by cultural gender dogma, and much prefers cosmetics and baton-twirling to football and rough-housing. Refreshingly, what troubles Sam and Ed most is not the concern that Scot might be bullied for being a 'sissy', but rather their own embarrassment at Scot's disruption of their neatly sanitised lives, which have been acceptably assimilated into heterosexual society.

The storyline is kept fresh and original by declining to stick to tired formulae, and building up - then thwarting - scenarios to which the reader expects a certain outcome. The author also ensures that Scot is not relegated to a stereotype and, imbuing him with his own contradictions (obsessed with perfume, but not with washing himself or dressing neatly), succeeds in creating a captivating, highly authentic character.

"Breakfast with Scot" does lose a star for falling into the trap it sought to expose (sanitisation of gay culture) by neglecting or concealing Scot's sexual nature, but otherwise is a highly entertaining and original novel. It has been adapted into a film (unreleased at the time of writing) and it will be interesting to see how the subtle, dry humour translates to screen.

Readers looking for a novel with a similarly original protagonist, but operating at greater depth, would do well to consider Donovan O'Malley's exquisite "Lemon Gulch"; for a light beach/plane read, however, "Breakfast with Scot" is an excellent choice.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Bitter-sweet novel with wry humour, 29 Jun 2000
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This review is from: Breakfast with Scot (Hardcover)
This is a sensitive, bitter-sweet novel about the highs and lows of the relationships between different generations, sexes and ambitions. It is witty, humourous and touching and stays in you mind for months afterwards.
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