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Got 'Til It's Gone
Larry Duplechan
May 28, 2009, MCCV Deacon Larry Duplechan won the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Romance for his most recent novel Got Till It's Gone. This is the most prestigious LGBT Literary award. Do Congratulate Larry. We are very proud of his literary achievement.
Synopsis of the Novel
This is the first novel by Larry Duplechan in fifteen years, and the fourth to feature his alter ego protagonist Johnnie Ray Rousseau, a gay black man of Louisiana Creole stock. When we first met Johnnie Ray in the novel Blackbird, 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. 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 ages.