One of These Things is not Like the Other
a novel: D. Travers Scott
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LITERARY AWARD WINNER:
Gay Men's Mystery BEST THRILLER
OF 2005 BEST NOVEL NOMINEE 2006 One of These Things is Not Like The Other is my most recent novel. I'm D. Travers Scott and my first novel was Execution, Texas: 1987, which was published by St. Martin's Press in 1997. One... was published in 2005 by Suspect Thoughts Press, home to cutting-edge writers such as Dodie Bellamy, Patrick Califia, Jennifer Natalya Fink, and Matt Bernstein Sycamore. Brutal, twisted... It’s rare to come across a writer this fearless and original.
But in the world of One of These Things, self and manhood are not to be trusted. One of These Things deals with similar themes as Execution -- family, masculinity, identity, faith -- but in a more fantastical narrative. An alternate timeline whose technological advancements are just out of step with our own. A set of quadruplet brothers are raised in rural isolation by their older, but also identical, father. All share the same name. Now in their 20s, the sons are shocked by their father's unexpected suicide -- and his claim that one of the brothers is not their brother. He is not family. He is an unrelated outsider. From different corners of the U.S. they converge on Gravesend, NJ, to meet the woman who may have answers. Maybe more answers than the men want. Suicide, homicide, fratricide, incest -- it's a love story. And a page turner. With very dark humor. Hell, it's better than Cirque de Soleil. David Lynch meets Neil Bartlett? A Tennessee Williams-penned Twilight Zone episode with a Magnetic Fields soundtrack? Clive Barker meets Brazil meets Fight Club? David Cronenberg directs a queer Ordinary People? Actually, I call it my "twisted take on Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises: a satire on American Manifest Destiny and the cult of masculine individualism, disguised as a thriller." Order a copy and find out for yourself.
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