HIS69-095 Chicken Chaser
Chicken Chaser
HIS69
HIS69-095
Charlie Peters
$1.95
FOREWORD
What does a chicken cruiser—one who is homy, hearty, good looking, well educated and stuck in a small east coast town—do to change his life for the better? He goes to work at a boy’s boarding school, of course, and lets it all hang out.
Jay Mattheson, in Charlie Peters’ novel, is an English teacher at Fenway Academy for Boys. Here he meets Jamie, a fourteen-year-old sexual athlete, Johnny Bowen, the handsome captain of the football team, Laddie Bonenhagen, a gorgeous kid of twelve just learning what to do with his masculine equipment, and, above all, Billy English, a poor little rich boy desperately in need of adult love, which Jay provides.
This is a frank, descriptive novel of a man who needs boys and the boys who respond to that need. On a deeper level it is a story about human relationships and the love on which they are founded. That the love and the sex is between males and many of the males are under age shouldn’t be shocking to civilized minds any more. In 1948 Gore Vidal published his epoch-making The City and the Pillar, in which for almost the first time in American fiction a boy’s love for another boy was described with the dignity it deserves. In 1954 Marguerite Yourcenar’s masterpiece, Hadrian’s Memoirs appeared, followed in 1956 by Gerald Tesch’s Never the Same Again, both books sensitively portraying the spiritual and physical love between a mature man and an adolescent boy. Since then excellent books with pseudo-erotic love stories have even climbed into best-seller status: one need only mention the fine historical romances of Mary Renault.
While in some of these books the author stops short of the bedroom door, so to speak, this is by no means a universal practice. Our author, Charlie Peters, believes, and so do we, that sex is an indispensable aspect of human relationships, and when it is appropriate to the development of these relationships in a novel, or to its characters, it should be described with all the honesty and candor at the writer’s disposal. This is what separates a fine story such as Chicken Chaser from an ordinary sex book: here the erotic scenes grow out of the deep feelings Jay and his boys have for one another and are not just used to arouse mechanically the lurid interest of the reader. Chicken Chaser is a serious novel and it is our expectation that you will be deeply moved by it.
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