The Tricky Part - A boy s story of sexual trespass, a man s journey to forgiveness

Zusatztext "Marvelous! courageous and above all! thoughtful." — The Washington Post "A story of sexual abuse and its seemingly endless halflife--remarkable then! that this isn't a book about blame! but forgiveness."—Kathryn Harrison “A subtly rendered and remarkably even-handed journey toward redemption.” — The Philadelphia Inquirer “Wise and heartbreaking...an astonishing balancing act of a book.”— Body and Soul “Elevates the confessional to the level of art.” —Michael Cunningham Informationen zum Autor MARTIN MORAN grew up in Denver and attended Stanford University and the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. He lives in New York City, where he makes his living as an actor and writer. He has appeared in many Broadway and Off-Broadway plays, including Titanic , Cabaret , Bells Are Ringing , Floyd Collins and The Cider House Rules . He won a 2004 Obie Award for his one-man play, The Tricky Part , which he continues to perform all over the country. Klappentext Raised in a loving Catholic family in Denver! Martin Moran was a star student who imagined that he'd one day become a U.S. senator. When he was twelve years old! a camp counselor seduced him! initiating a sexual relationship that would last three years-and haunt Moran's life for decades. He discovered a passion for acting and built a career that would take him to Broadway! but only when Moran finally tracked down and confronted his abuser thirty years later could he finally forgive himself for someone's else trespass. Funny and tender about growing up Catholic and gay! The Tricky Part never oversimplifies either the abuse or the vexing work of recovering from it. This powerful story carries us to the heart of a paradox: that what we think of as damage may be the very thing that gives rise to transformation! even grace. 1 March 28, 2002. It's Holy Thursday. That's Catholic for three days before Easter, and I'm in Las Vegas. I've come from my home in New York City to visit my father. We're at Vons, a fluorescent grocery store roughly the size of Manhattan, waiting in line to pay for pork chops. There's a bank of slot machines near the exit clanging away, and I find, as I do each time I come to this desert city, that I'm in shock to think it's here Dad's retired and will likely die. There, on a rack in the checkout line, on the cover of Time magazine, is a gray and ominous drawing of the back of a bishop and these words: Can the Catholic Church Save Itself? The headlines of the scandal are everywhere at the moment. It's an uprising, the body of Mother Church erupting with such force that the shock waves are reverberating, at long last, all the way up to her head. Cardinal Law will resign before the year is out. I reach for a copy of the magazine. "Jesus, that's been goin' on for a thousand years," my father says, jutting a finger at Time . "Did I ever tell you what happened to your aunt when she was little?" "No, Dad." "Father Murray, the basement of St. Bede's. I don't know what went on, but thank God the janitor happened by. I never knew anything about it until your aunt refused to let Murray say your grandmother's funeral mass." I say to my dad, "Wow," but nothing else, because suddenly I'm riveted by a photo, page twenty-eight, of Father Kos and a Dallas boy, age twelve, who killed himself at twenty-one. I know the story of Kos and his altar boys; I'd cut every clip of it from the papers in '98 and stuck them in the thick file I keep under my desk. I'd read about the young men who'd gone to court and were awarded millions and the promise of a public apology from the Archdiocese of Dallas. I can recall the New York Times photo of them, handsome and courageous in their suit...

Product details

• Authors: Martin Moran
• Publisher: Anchor Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.04.2006
• EAN: 9780307276537
• ISBN: 978-0-307-27653-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 203 mm x 16 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries