logo
Wrong email address or username
Wrong email address or username
Incorrect verification code
The Brothers Bishop - Bart Yates
The Brothers Bishop
by: (author)
4.00 10
Secrets and lies - this is a searing novel of loss and redemption. Yates explores the explosive, unshakeable bond between two brothers and the one summer that changes their lives forever. Tommy and Nathan Bishop are as different as two brothers can be. Carefree and careless, Tommy is the golden... show more
Secrets and lies - this is a searing novel of loss and redemption. Yates explores the explosive, unshakeable bond between two brothers and the one summer that changes their lives forever. Tommy and Nathan Bishop are as different as two brothers can be. Carefree and careless, Tommy is the golden boy who takes men into his bed with a seductive smile and turns them out just as quickly. No one can resist him - and no one can control him. Nathan is all about control. At 31, he is as dark and complicated as Tommy is light and easy - and bitter beyond his years. While Tommy left for the excitement of New York City, Nathan stayed behind, teaching high school English in their provincial hometown, surrounded by the remainders of their ruined family history and a legacy of anger that runs through him like a scar. Now, Tommy has come home to the family cottage for the summer, bringing his unstable, sexual powder-keg of an entourage - and the distant echoes of his family's tumultuous past - with him. Tommy and his lover Phil are teetering on the brink of disaster, while their married friends, Camille and Kyle, perfect their steps in a dance of deception, each partner pulling Nathan deeper into the fray. And when one of Nathan's troubled students begins visiting the house, a slow fuse is lit on a highly combustible mix...
show less
Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780758209122 (0758209126)
Publisher: Kensington
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Bookstores:
Community Reviews
Ami's Hoard
Ami's Hoard rated it
To be honest, this book deals with a very hard, difficult, disturbing subjects. It involves incest, pedophilia, and domestic/child abuse, depressive states that lead to suicide attempts, and the list go on and on. But Mr. Yates, that have amazed me with his debut Leave Myself Behind once again prove...
Gosh I Wish I was a Good Writer
Gosh I Wish I was a Good Writer rated it
4.0 The Brothers Bishop
This was the second novel for Yates. It was by far darker and sadder then the first. It was one of those stories when no one wins in the end.
Other editions (4)
Books by Bart Yates
On shelves
Share this Book
Need help?