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You can never judge an academic book by its cover.
Simon Dyson, a quiet assistant professor, is a man of hidden depths, one who refuses to define his sexuality. To the world he presents as a harmless, innocuous, shy and retiring intellectual. However, the man who lurks behind that public persona is far more interesting ... and dangerous ... and driven.
Wheelchair is a slow-burn contemporary psychological crime thriller about a man who suffers from both OCD and PTSD, a man who is unwittingly caught up in a cross-border war between rival crime gangs--a conflict that almost leads to his death, and more than once.
It's a study of compulsion and of disability, and of the many faces of emotional dependence and sexual compulsion. It's about how some gay men cannot just love or make love because their hearts or their bodies lead them to it, but who can only connect emotionally and physically through self-imposed rituals which involve struggle or self-abasement.
Author: Garrick Jones
Paperback Published 18 September 2020 398 pages