Vintage: A Ghost Story
by:
Steve Berman (author)
A lonely gay teen bides his time with trips to strangers' funerals and Ouija board sessions, desperately searching for someone to loveand a reason to live following a suicide attempt. Walking an empty stretch of highway on an autumn night, he meets a strange and beautiful boy who looks like...
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A lonely gay teen bides his time with trips to strangers' funerals and Ouija board sessions, desperately searching for someone to loveand a reason to live following a suicide attempt. Walking an empty stretch of highway on an autumn night, he meets a strange and beautiful boy who looks like he stepped out of a dream. But the vision becomes into a nightmare when the boy turns out to be the local urban legend, the ghost of a star athlete killed in 1957a ghost with a deadly secret and a dangerous obsession. Vintage: A Ghost Story is an intense thriller that looks at the dark side of gay urban fantasy, where the dead can never rest and trapped spirits never find peace.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781590211304 (1590211308)
Publish date: March 15th 2008
Publisher: Lethe Press
Pages no: 204
Edition language: English
Vintage’s protagonist is an unnamed mostly closeted gay teen, who I will call MC (short for “Main Character”) from here on out. MC ran away from home after his parents reacted badly to learning that he was gay, so now he lives with his aunt, who he’s afraid might do the same thing. The only people w...
For some reason I had low expectations for this book, guess I didn't believe a love ghost story would be easy to pull off rightly. But 'Vintage' surprised me, and not did I just like it but actually found myself scared at some moments of the story. The reason I'm not giving this five stars is 'cause...
4.5 stars"In a small town, a lonely teen walking along a highway one autumn evening meets the boy of his dreams, a boy who happens to have died decades ago and haunts the road" ...Reading that blurb, I thought the angst love story will happen between the hero and the ghost. Until further along the s...