Brenda Webster Novelist, critic, and translator

Brenda Webster The Beheading Game

Date of Review: 
03/01/2006
Published Work: 
Reviewer: 
Emily Drabinski
Source: 
Out Magazine

Review Excerpt:

Anyone who has done a stretch of psychotherapy will tell you that life is pretty much a decades-long project of reckoning with our parents. Webster deftly portrays the agony and potential ecstasy of a son coming to terms with his father in this contemporary gay romance. Ren's closeted lover, Jack, lies fighting for his life in a New York City cancer ward as Ren mounts a production of the medieval fable Sir Gawain and the Green Knight