The abomination
By: Paul Golding.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Knopf; Distibuted by Random House
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 433
Subjects: Gay men -- Fiction.; Autobiographical memory -- Fiction.; Boarding schools -- Fiction.; Parent and child -- Fiction.; London (England) -- Fiction.; Spain -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "The Abomination chronicles the life of Santiago Moore Zamora, a young man born to a beautiful, emotionally distant Spanish mother and an austere English father. Adrift in a world of nameless one-night stands, living in a London of suffocating hedonism, he remembers his early years in Spain and sudden exile to boarding school in England where two proscribed love affairs set him on a course apart...".

"As Zamora brings to mind his experiences at school - memories of intense passion and cold betrayal - and then the extreme censure of his father, he accepts that even his mother has begun to love him less because of what he has become. 'Strange,' he realizes, 'how one man's imprisonment can, to another, seem like liberation.' The Abomination tells of life lived in innocence, then in alienation, defiance and anger."--BOOK JACKET.