Title: Got 'til it's gone
First published: 2008
Description: As funny, warm, and sexy as its protagonist, Got 'til it's Gone is the first novel by Larry Duplechan in fifteen years, and the fourth to feature his alter-ego Johnnie Ray Rousseau, a gay black man of Louisiana Creole stock. When we first met Johnnie Ray in the 1986 novel Blackbird--the first gay black coming-out novel ever published--he was a gay teenager in love with the star of a high school play; now he's forty-eight, still handsome and gym-built but admittedly vain and looking down the short road to fifty with some chagrin. In the midst of a midlife crisis, he falls for a much younger man with some serious Daddy issues; throughout it all, Johnnie Ray tries to look at love (and his life) from both sides now (to borrow a phrase from his idol, Joni Mitchell). Got 'til it's Gone is a queer romantic comedy for the twenty-first century.
Subjects: Literature, Middle-aged gay men, Fiction, Fiction, gay, Louisiana, fiction, LGBTQ romance, Lambda Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Award Winner, Johnnie Ray Roussean (Fictitious character), Fiction, lgbtq+, gay
LC classification: PS3554.U55 G68 2008