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Mark Kindle Edition

by Lonnie Coleman (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
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The work of a superbly gifted writer at the height of his powers, Lonnie Coleman’s Mark is destined to become a classic—the wonderfully moving story of a young man growing up in a small southern town. It is a novel about the lives of ordinary people, the exploration of feelings, the capacity to love, the discovery of sexual choice.
Set in Montgomery, Alabama, and Savannah, Georgia, in the twenties and thirties, Mark is the story of a young boy, orphaned by death of both parents and raised by his aunt and uncle, from adolescence to adulthood, and ending with the outbreak of World War II. The novel is filled with abudant life, with characters so totally perceived that we feel we have known them for years: Marshall, who dazzles and entertains Mark with wild theatricality; Alice, a schoolgirl Katharine Hepburn, who enchants him with her aloofness; Margaret Torrence, his teacher, ally and mentor, intolerant of pretense and dishonesty, who encourages his budding talent as a writer; Carl, who answers the need Mark has always felt, but never quite understood, by teaching him to trust and to love.
Lonnie Coleman has written a novel of one man’s life that is also a novel about human beings, families, friends, teachers—good and bad—small-town America, the Depression, strength, courage, success and failure. The author knows the lives of people in small southern towns intimately. He writes of them sensitively, yet is never sentimental; with dialogue that is often devastatingly funny, sometimes poignant, yet always true; with characters that are flawed and lovable in their humanity, yet never stereotyped.
A writer of great integrity and insight, who perceives emotional states in all their subtlety, Lonnie Coleman has created in Mark the sense of real characters, of life truly lived, of the inward transformation of a human being from childhood into maturity.
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    April 18, 2020
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B087BGTM96
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Classica Libris (April 18, 2020)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 18, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1168 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 299 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 16 ratings

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4.7 out of 5 stars
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R. Penola
5.0 out of 5 stars H E A R T B R E A K I N G !
Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2000
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Beulah Land is the bloated Gone With The Wind rip-off that Lonnie Coleman is known for; but if you have never heard of/read this book, you are missing out on the one of those surprising, rare treasures in popular fiction. This fictional memoir bravely, sweetly goes to unexpected places, and tears your heart out in the process. I read and re-read this book many, many times, and each time felt those hot tears on my face in the final pages. You will love these characters, the evocative places/times; it has that quality Main Street does in Disney World, except you lose a bit of your innocence along the way. Growing up in wartime, and harboring personal secrets, makes up the mainframe of this story, and it is absolute insanity that this beautiful, simple book has been out of print for nearly two decades. Try it; you will not regret it.
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Ray G.
5.0 out of 5 stars Well drawn believable characters
Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2013
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Coleman's semi-autobiographic novel is about a boy growing up in gay in Alabama in the years prior to WWII. He meets the love of his life at the U. of Alabama who is at the school on a football scholarship. They go against the norms of the times and committ to one another. Their relationship is ended by the war but this was not uncommon for heterosexual couples at the time. I found the story of Marks young life very moving.
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Dolores Cowell
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book
Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2019
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Love Lonnie Coleman's books!
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DDP
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2017
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A wonderful "gay" novel that deserves to be a cult book!!!!
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Trudy Booker
2.0 out of 5 stars don’t believe in homosexuality!
Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2020
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The book was ok until the end and found out he was homosexual,!!!
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Clear Englebert
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best gay novels ever written!
Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2022
Lonnie Coleman can hereby take his place among the truly great Southern writers! I've read a LOT of gay novels and this one is right up there at the top. The writing is just superb! I was very touched by the characters that he presented. His earlier novel, Sam, is also terrific. We lost a lot when Coleman died of a heart attack in 1982. One of the best explorations of his writings is "Lonnie Coleman Remembered" by Nowell Briscoe which is in The Golden Age of Gay Fiction edited by Drewey Wayne Gunn.
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