A Comfortable Corner is a novel like no other, alive with hope and struggle, desperation and compassion, loneliness and community.

Terence Strange and Christopher More had been lovers for many years, but at last Terence could take no more of the mess alcoholism was making of their lives. Where could he find counsel? Surely not in Judith and Gerald, whose once-happy marriage was crumbling, nor in Dominic Perrugio and William More, Christopher’s father, whose doomed relationship seemed a portent of Terence’s future. All their lives were bound together, but Terence had to disentangle himself from the web of hatred and find a way free to love.

Gay, straight, generational – alcoholism and recovery is an American story. This historically important, socially relevant book is now back in print for the first time since 1982.

Praise

“I read A Comfortable Corner more than forty years ago. A friend handed it to me when I was trying to change my life. I bombed through its gleeful coziness and was delightedly puzzled that so much beautiful writing can also deliver a message, because this is a book probably most of all for someone. Well, two someones, those interested in recovery, and those interested in a pitch perfect account of gay life.” –from the new introduction by Eileen Myles, Chelsea Girls: A Novel

“Come for the luscious mandarin prose, stay for the operatic sweep of lives unraveling and rebuilding in this bejeweled time capsule of a novel. Arch, dazzling, glamorously romantic even at its most sensationally lurid, A Comfortable Corner is by turns a bittersweet remembrance of the post-Stonewall/pre-AIDS Seventies, a harrowing account of the berserker ravages of alcohol, a heartfelt narrative of suffering, and the unquenchable human need to love and be loved.” –Paul Russell, The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov and Boys of Life

Available from Rebel Satori Press

Vincent Virga  is the author of the first gay gothic romance, Gaywyck (1980) with a happy ending, as well as A Comfortable Corner (1982) and Vadriel Vail (2001). Virga is the only person in NYC publishing who researches, edits, designs, and captions picture inserts for non-fiction books. He also spent over two decades working with the curators at the Library of Congress on 29 books. He is currently experiencing a renaissance with all his fiction returning to print, including two unpublished Gaywyck books completing the Gaywyck Quartet. His life-companion since 1964 is the fellow writer James McCourt. Their papers are held at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. They live in Manhattan and Ireland.

About the Author

Bryen Dunn is a freelance journalist based in Toronto with a focus on tourism, lifestyle, entertainment and community issues. He has written several travel articles and has an extensive portfolio of celebrity interviews with musicians, actors and other public personalities. He’s willing to take on any assignments of interest, attend parties with free booze, listen to rants, and travel the world in search of the great unknown. He’s eager to discover the new, remember the past, and look into the future.