“Incandescent angels of love … an electric voyage” — The Advocate
LOS ANGELES—July 14, 2020—Following the remarkable Italian-American family saga featured in The Family of Max Desir, Robert Ferro returns with his deeply moving novel – “THE BLUE STAR”.
— Richard Howard
“Enthralling … euphoric imagination … we can never forget the bliss we are allowed to share.”
“Shimmering … elegance, even if touched here and there by a measure of decadence, prevails … superb taste and style.”
— Publisher’s Weekly
Two heroes, reflective Peter and Byronic Chase, indulge their youthful appetites in Florence. Over the next 20 years their paths diverge and reconverge. Chase marries into the Italian aristocracy and Peter pursues his passion for Lorenzo, a beautiful young Florentine. The past impinges on the present as the story of Chase’s ancestor, Orvil Starkweather, is revealed – the secrets of his life sounding a counterpoint to Chase’s. New York City’s Central Park and the imposing figure of designer Frederick Law Olmsted provide a mysterious connection to Chase’s life. The story of the two men unfolds in Florence and New York exposing the unimagined and startling connection with the past, and taking them finally on a fateful cruise up the Nile aboard the luxury yacht the Blue Star.
“A lush chronicle of the heart’s education … Ferro revels in life’s ups and downs in a prose rife with pleasures rich as those described.”
— Village Voice
Not just the critics but readers, too, loved The Blue Star. Amazon reader Petronius enthused: “The Blue Star is a great piece of gay literature. Much of the setting is in Florence, Italy. Ferro has a talent for packing a great deal of erotic energy into short phrases and sentences in these scenes. The story is a fun fantasy of the type that is easy to imagine when you are a traveler in Florence. The descriptions are vivid; those of the Italian lover tantalizing. Having traveled to Florence on several occasions during the period of which he is writing, I truly enjoyed the writing pertaining to gay cruising at that period. Ferro’s early death is a great loss.”
The Blue Star was originally published in 1985, this new edition contains a 2020 foreword by Andrew Holleran. ReQueered Tales is reissuing Ferro’s four novels through 2021.
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256 pgs • 978-1-951092-25-2
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