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Carson was born in 1946 in Wallasey, in the north-west of England.
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Benson at Sixty (Paperback) - Common
(Bis: Spanish)
Bis: Spanish
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Benson at Sixty
( The great comic hero of Sucking Sherbet Lemons, now emb...)
The great comic hero of Sucking Sherbet Lemons, now embracing hard-won sobriety, contemplates the ultimate commitment of civil partnership Martin Benson, after a lifetime away, has made it home to Merseyside, his sherbet lemons all sucked down, his penguins all stripped bare. He's bought a house at the top of his town and filled it with souvenirs of a wandering life. He lives with his memories and with a stern partner, Ted, a motorcycle test examiner who tripped over him comatose one dark night on the prom, sensed that Mr. Benson was at battle with the bottle, took him to a meeting of QA (Queer Alcoholics), and moved in. After a life spent in the shallows, Benson has come to the point when he must face reality.
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Benson at Sixty
(Martin Benson, of Sucking Sherbet Lemons fame, has made i...)
Martin Benson, of Sucking Sherbet Lemons fame, has made it home to Merseyside after a lifetime away. He's bought a house at the top of his town and filled it with souvenirs of a wandering life. He shares his home with a stern partner, a motorcycle test examiner, Rob, who tripped over him, one dark night on the prom, sensed Benson was a slave to the bottle, took him to a meeting of QA (Queer Alcoholics), and moved in. Rob sets out to make a new man of Benson. He cajoles him into riding his Honda CG 125 with due care and attention; taking a demanding job as a Byelaws Officer with the local lifeguard service; befriending fellow queers who have fallen victim to booze and been arrested for cottaging... and suggesting that he and Benson tie the knot at a civil ceremony in glamorous Blackpool. After a life spent in the shallows, Benson has come to the point - somewhat late in his day - when he must face reality and proceed, guided by Rob and his mates in QA, into life's deep-end. A romantic exploration of commitment, alcoholism and recovery, Benson at Sixty addresses a reality often ignored: that gay men, too, grow older, and the stereotype of gay youth has tended to dominate in fiction. A dazzling and insightful return to form by one of Britain’s greatest humorists, Benson at Sixty sets a new standard for the modern comic novel.
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Benson at Sixty by Michael Carson (8-Sep-2011) Paperback
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Benson at Sixty BENSON AT SIXTY BY Carson, Michael ( Author ) Nov-01-2012 BENSON AT SIXTY BENSON AT SIXTY BY CARSON, MICHAEL ( AUTHOR ) NOV-01-2012 By Carson, Michael ( Author )Nov-01-2012 Hardcover
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The Rule of Twelfths (Sidestroke Free Press Free Stories Book 1)
(I wrote this story after returning home to Merseyside wit...)
I wrote this story after returning home to Merseyside with three decades of life abroad under my belt. It's very much a story told through a sense of place. Sometimes you can live a long time, and not 'get' something that, when you finally hear about it, is really obvious. During a training session for New Brighton Lifeguards, the instructor told us about The Rule of Twelfths. Tides do not come in and go out at a steady rate. If you take the volume of the tide and divide it into twelve parts, one-twelfth advances (or retreats) during the first hour of the tide; two-twelfths during the second hour; three-twelfths during both the third and fourth hour; two-twelfths during the fifth hour...and one-twelfth during the sixth and final hour. I hadn't known that as a kid, or when I last worked as a lifeguards in the 1960s. I'd noticed that the tides seemed faster - and therefore more dangerous - at certain times. Around here the sandbanks are surrounded by water in no time at all. People get cut off. I wish I'd known it then. But knowing the rule now helped me in my work. The Rule of Twelfths also has a pleasing (though melancholy) similarity to human life. We wax. We wane. So the story is also about the inevitability of change, and becoming what we never thought was possible: old.
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Sucking Sherbet Lemons by Michael Carson (2012-05-01)
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Sucking Sherbet Lemons
( A classic, hilarious coming out novel about growing up ...)
A classic, hilarious coming out novel about growing up in the 1960s—can Benson be both gay and Catholic? Gay and happy? What do you do when you're fat, 14, and your obsessions include the Catholic Church, doing the right thing, scones and sweets, and other boys and their private parts? Well, if you're Benson, you panic and flee, hiding from the flesh as a novice in a monastery. Alas, St. Finbar's monastery is as full of temptation as the grammar school he'd left behind. The devils of desire find Benson once again and throw him back into the world from which he’d tried to escape. Returned to school, Benson is still trying to square the circle of his conflicting enthusiasms and desires. This comic epic is a warm, funny, and bold reminder of just how new, and superficial, sexual tolerance in contemporary society really is.
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Dying in Style by Michael Carson (1998-02-06)
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Michael Carson
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Education
Aberystwyth University.
Career
He is best known for his of novels, about a young man growing up Catholic and homosexual. He was brought up as a devout Catholic. After attending Aberystwyth and Oxford universities, and training at International House World Organisation in London, he spent twenty years teaching English as a Foreign Language primarily in the Arab world.
He has lectured in writing at Liverpool John Moores University, the University of Liverpool and the University of Lancaster.
He mentors for Crossing Borders, a project to encourage African writers. He has also worked as a lifeguard.
Short stories Carson released a collection of short stories in 1993, Serving Suggestions, published by Victor Gollancz (X), which includes "The Punishment of Luxury". A further collection of short stories, The Rule of Twelfths, was published by Headland in May 2008.
Fifty short stories by Michael Carson have also featured on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Four.
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Sucking Sherbet Lemons
( A classic, hilarious coming out novel about growing up ...)
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Benson at Sixty
( The great comic hero of Sucking Sherbet Lemons, now emb...)
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Friends and Infidels
(An English inspector struggles to implement change in a r...)
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The Rule of Twelfths (Sidestroke Free Press Free Stories Book 1)
(I wrote this story after returning home to Merseyside wit...)
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Benson at Sixty
(Martin Benson, of Sucking Sherbet Lemons fame, has made i...)
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Benson at Sixty (Paperback) - Common
(Bis: Spanish)
- Benson at Sixty by Michael Carson (8-Sep-2011) Paperback
- Benson at Sixty BENSON AT SIXTY BY Carson, Michael ( Author ) Nov-01-2012 BENSON AT SIXTY BENSON AT SIXTY BY CARSON, MICHAEL ( AUTHOR ) NOV-01-2012 By Carson, Michael ( Author )Nov-01-2012 Hardcover
- Sucking Sherbet Lemons by Michael Carson (2012-05-01)
- Dying in Style by Michael Carson (1998-02-06)
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Sucking Sherbet Lemons
