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Original Title:	Comfort and Joy
ISBN:	1565123964 (ISBN13: 9781565123960)
Edition Language:	English

Comfort and Joy

Jim Grimsley

Paperback | Pages: 304 pages

Rating: 4.03 | 1508 Users | 140 Reviews

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Ford McKinney leads a charmed life: he's a young doctor possessing good looks, good breeding, and money. He comes from an old Savannah family where his parents, attentive to his future, focus their energies on finding their son--their golden boy--a girl to marry. But how charmed is this life when Ford's own heart suspects that he is not meant to spend his life with a woman? His suspicions are confirmed when he meets Dan Crell.

Dan is a quiet man with a great voice. Behind the tempered facade of the shy hospital administrator is a singer who can transform a room with his soaring voice, leaving his listeners in awe and reverence. Ford catches one such Christmas concert and his life is never quite the same; he is touched in a place he keeps hidden, forbidden. When Ford and Dan begin to explore the limits of their relationship, Dan's own secrets are exposed--and his mysterious and painful childhood returns to haunt him.

In Comfort and Joy Jim Grimsley finds a marriage between the stark and stunning pain of his prize-winning Winter Birds and the passion of critically acclaimed Dream Boy. In this, his fourth novel, he considers pressing questions. How does a man reconcile the child he was raised to be with the man that he truly is? What happens when an adult has to choose between his parents and a lover?

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Title	:	Comfort and Joy
Author	:	Jim Grimsley
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 304 pages
Published	:	October 16th 2003 by Algonquin Books (first published 1995)
Categories	:	LGBT. Romance. M M Romance. Fiction. Gay. GLBT. Queer. Contemporary

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Ratings: 4.03 From 1508 Users | 140 Reviews

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Dream boy, My Drowning, and Winter Birds, are three of my all time favorite novels.This one is more of a romance, and I loved watching Dan and Ford's relationship blossom, but of course, the darkness of Dan's past (you will recognize him from Winter Birds) comes lurking around the corner, and this, the second part of the novel, is when Grimsley is at his best.However, meshing the two colors together--light pink and violent purple--didn't quite come out right here. To me, it was like mixing

March 22 2010I can certainly relate to this novel, as I suspect many males in long term spousal relationships can do. I too had to choose between my spouse (of 30 years) and my parents. This book ends with such a choice made by Ford, leaving the future to the experience of the reader. It took about 5 years before my parents came around to accept us completely and now give Chris their love, always ask about him. Sometimes, I even think they like him better than me :-) He has become like an

I am so so glad to have discovered Jim Grimsley. Comfort & Joy is an extraordinarily fascinating book. It is a love story between a pediatrician and an employee of the hospital's administration. In particular, family structures, coming out process, human interaction and dealing with drastic life events will be highlighted. And it's about the question of acceptance. Parents have certain plans for their offspring. What if nothing works the way the parents imagined it? Snobbery on the one hand,

This was one of those rare books that I so wanted the story to continue for another 100 pages or so. I was so drawn in to Ford & Dan's relationship that when I was getting down to the last 20 pages, I did not want their story to end. Seeing their love for each other grow throughout the novel, seeing Ford finally getting comfortable in his own skin and not be self-loathing about his being gay, seeing him finally facing his self-righteous, narrow-minded parents and essentially tell them to go

Dave Malone, the best writing teacher I've ever had, once asked me to describe the difference between fiction and literature. I don't remember exactly how I answered, but I do remember that I was judged to be incorrect. According to Dave, the difference is simple: fiction makes statements; literature asks questions.The central question of Comfort and Joy is "Why do men stay together?" I have to say that I had a very negative, knee-jerk reaction to that question because, in the context of this

Throwing the towel at 32%I bought this without reading the sample based only on great reviews.Why???? I don't know. But I do know I'll be getting my money back for this. Dan lay his hand on the door latch. The driver opened his door and got out. Dan opened his door and got out. The cold air chilled his face as he waited for the driver to open the trunk. The driver lifted the first of the bags and Ford reached for it; the driver looked at Dan, who said, Its all right.

4.5 Stars. I finished this a while ago and for some reason I never found the way, or the words to review it. I hope I will review it later when I'm on my laptop. But for now know that this is beautiful in a strange and unique way. The melancholy and beauty of the writing, and the realness of the story and its characters is wonderful. It's a love story, but it's not your typical one. However it feels incredibly realistic, and it resonates with the reader (or it did with me, anyway).I'll be back