The Far Away Years, by L.F. Blake
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The Far Away Years, by L.F. Blake
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Danny has suspected from the moment they met that he might be in love with Jeff. But not only is the guitarist of his rock band straight--he's happily married. Or so Danny believes, until he risks exposing his feelings and discovers the extent of Jeff's self-denial and unhappiness. Now both Danny and Jeff must decide how much their new relationship means to them, and if it's worth all the pain it comes along with. Told over the span of eight years, The Far Away Years is a story of love, pain, addiction, and two flawed men learning to fight for their happily ever after.
The Far Away Years, by L.F. Blake- Published on: 2015-03-11
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .94" w x 5.00" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 416 pages
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n Roll By Blake Fraina As a voracious reader of modern gay literary fiction, I'm forever seeking stories that are not typical of the genre. While the variety of character types, storylines and genres represented in queer fiction continues to grow, LGBT novels about rock and roll are still scarce as hen's teeth. With the exception of Joel Lane's From Blue to Black and Dennis Cooper's surreal graphic novel, Horror Hospital Unplugged, there is nearly a complete absence of serious stories about gay rock musicians. With any luck, L.F. Blake's The Far Away Years will achieve some notoriety and help to change that.It tells of the volatile relationship between Danny and Jeff, two members of Far Cry, a hard rock band gaining success in the late seventies/early eighties. Danny, the charismatic, diminutive, red-haired singer, is obsessively in love with Jeff, the tall, dark and handsome Latino guitarist. But Jeff is deep in denial about his homosexuality, despite carrying on a years-long extramarital affair with Danny, inadvertently stringing him along and leading him to despair and self-destruction.I was drawn in from the very first page. Blake's writing is sharp and concise. The dialogue, peppered with contractions, colloquialisms and four-letter words, crackles with authenticity. And the author has seemingly no compunction about depicting realistic, three dimensional characters - warts and all. She doesn't shy away from the drinking and drug use that's rampant in the rock biz. Refreshing, when so often in LGBT fiction writers seem unnaturally concerned with proving that gay people are paragons of virtue (in a desperate attempt to disprove the accusations of the religious right, one imagines). See Stewart Lewis's wishy-washy Rockstarlet as a prime example of this practice. But real people are flawed. Often terribly so. They can often be casually cruel, rude, combative and self-destructive. Blake's characters are all of these things and despite this [and sometimes because of it] they're completely relatable - loveable even. Well done.This is not to say the book is without its flaws. Jeff's long-suffering wife, Lani, surely a victim by anyone's standards, is depicted as an egocentric, sexually withholding celebrity wannabe, a harridan and (horrors!) a bad mother. One can only assume this is all in aid of justifying [in the mind of the reader] her husband's inevitable emergence from the closet to leave her. She is the book's only true caricature and an egregious one at that. Seriously, why is this woman portrayed as such an unreasonable wretch when she refuses to allow Danny, an active heroin user, to babysit her infant daughter? Would you? Would anyone? I've known enough druggies in my time and I wouldn't leave my cats in their care.I was also slightly disappointed that there was almost no focus on the band's rise to fame. In complete contrast to the Lane book which is fraught with all the niggling details of songwriting, performances and press coverage, Blake spends virtually no time showing Far Cry recording, making videos, playing gigs or checking the pop charts and, as such, the book suffers from a serious lack of atmosphere. After all, much of this takes place in the early eighties - when the burgeoning MTV had a stranglehold on the world's music buying habits. Who can forget the terrific scene in the film Parting Glances wherein Steve Buscemi's character, Nick, sits up all night just to get a glimpse of his indie band's video on MTV? Or what about that wonderful moment in That Thing You Do when The Wonders do a jig around the appliance store upon first hearing themselves on the radio? I suspect Blake, who is only twenty-three and a product of the digital music age, doesn't remember the heady days when airplay was king. Injecting more period detail and some music biz background at the expense of cutting a few of the numerous encounters between the two leads would've made the book that much stronger. She could particularly afford to sacrifice a good portion of the book's latter half, which is almost too saccharine for its own good.But I have to say, overall this one surprised me. Blake has an incredible ear for her characters' voices and has created two protagonists that are complicated, interesting and sexy. And while the story could be tightened up with the elimination of redundant scenes and the inclusion of some nitty-gritty detail, as a first novel, I was mightily impressed and hope L.F Blake publishes more out of the ordinary gay fiction in the future.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. The Far Away Years By Melissa Danny wants to make more than music with Jeff. He fell in love with Jeff the moment he saw him. Now two years later and members of an up and coming rock band, Danny still hasn't found a way to let Jeff know how he feels. Finally a situation presents itself and in a moment of desperation Danny makes his feelings known to Jeff. Danny's actions affect not only he and Jeff, but also everyone surrounding them. Aggressions and emotions spiral out of control and Danny slips farther away from reality as his band Far Cry's fame skyrockets but his relationship with Jeff becomes less and less of what he wishes it to be.Up until Danny revealed his feelings, Jeff never thought of Danny as more than his friend and band mate, and he certainly never considered him for a lover. Homosexuality is wrong, that's what his father always told him. If that were true, why does it feel so right with Danny and why does he keep going back for more?The Far Away Years is a very compelling hard-hitting story. It starts off in the late 1970s and span over the course of a few years. We see not only the rise and fall and resurrection of Jeff and Danny, but also their band Far Cry. The characters, with Danny in the forefront are as dysfunctional as a person can get. Danny had me on the ropes about my feelings toward him; for the most part my heart did go out to him. I found it hard not to feel sorry for him, but his actions made it hard to like him. I felt the same about Jeff. LF Blake goes into some detail of the drug use and the toll fame can have on a person. She makes a point of how getting what you think you want may not be what you need. She also has great supporting characters who all seemed to have issues to work through, and each of them were essential to the plot of the story. Ms. Blake did a great job with this story. The Far Away Years is not a sweet romantic story. It's a gritty novel full of pain, hurt and deception as well as love and fulfillment. I enjoyed The Far Away Years and look forward to reading future works by Ms. Blake.Leyreviewed for Joyfully Reviewed
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. The Far Away Years by L.F. Blake By Elisa It's 3.30 in the morning and I just finished to cry. No, not worry, I'm not sad, I'm only sapply happy. I read a book that makes me cry like a fountain and I'm happy... and I can't stop yawning.1977. Danny is a little skinny guy with a good voice but with a lot of emotional issues. He is gay, even if he can't admit it with the world and even with himself. But when he lays eyes on Jeff, he falls in love head over heels. Jeff is a guitarist; really he is not a pretty boy, rather the opposite, but when he plays he is beautiful. At least for Danny. So beautiful that Danny decides to put up a band only to have the chance to be near Jeff. And he remains near him even when Jeff gets married.But Danny's unrequited love can't be hidden for long and he needs to tell Jeff. And then starts a slowly fall toward hell. Cause even if he would say it neither under torture, Jeff is gay. True he has never considered Danny as a possible lover before the man proposed him. And true, it's not simple for him to accept all this, but Danny is like a drug and Jeff seems to be addictive. While he continues to bring on a marriage with an almost bitch, and procreates three kids, he also continues to return everytime to Danny. Oh, he says to himself it's only lust, it's not love. And he doesn't realize that he is slowly killing Danny. And when he is forced to choose between his career and sons against Danny, he chooses to free himself from his addiction, and while finally he admits with Danny to love him, the same day he leaves him to his lonely fate. But Danny is not so strong as Jeff is thinking, and he is addicted to another type of drug, a real drug that allows him to forget everything and above all himself.The Far Away Years is a very long and involving book. It deals with the glam rock era and with a period when sex, drugs and rock and roll were still things that didn't kill you, unless you didn't take to much of all of them. And Danny passed all of them, beginning with rock and roll, passing through sex and arriving to drugs, all too much, always putting too much of him in them, never thinking first at him. But for all the book Danny is all the same, he is a nice guy who needs only to be loved. And even if he doesn't say it aloud, he is always asking for love, with all himself.Who instead goes through a big changing is Jeff. Truth be told, I don't like very much the Jeff of the first part of the book. He is a selfcentered bastard. He can't see how much Danny needs him, and he only thinks to what is good for him. And sincerely if not for a third part intervention, I think he would not opened his eyes. But when he opens that eyes, he makes a very good choice. So good Jeff, you save your image in front of him, still you could do that also before...The Far Away Years is a romance, but it's not an erotic romance. There is sex, but it's almost chaste, made of things not said rather than graphic details. But sincerely I don't feel the lack of sex, and some images are very tender and romantic.
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