The Fourth Quill by Johnson, Toby

The Fourth Quill (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781727066920)

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Format: Paperback
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The Fourth Quill by Johnson, Toby

The Fourth Quill

$15.00
The Fourth Quill by Johnson, Toby

The Fourth Quill

$15.00
Format: Paperback
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The Fourth Quill recasts the story of AIDS into a parallel universe with a surprising and happy ending, where its main character can wonder if he really has brought about the cure of AIDS. Woven through the hero/adventure plot are two lovely and heartwarming romances, one straight, one gay-both with unexpected twists. A little modern, scientific and sensible and a little mystical, The Fourth Quill exemplifies Toby Johnson's style of dramatizing gay spirit through storytelling and speculative fiction. This is a parallel universe readers will likely remember and come back to.

Originally published in 1987 when AIDS was still a mystery disease, this novel, originally titled Plague: A Novel about Healing presented wisdom from A Course in Miracles and The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment. In those days, successful treatments had not been developed and spiritual/attitudinal healing-of soul, if not of body-was the only hope.

Thirty years later, the novel's quandary about the nature of evil and its message of hopeful acceptance and love of life are perhaps even more relevant if about something so much more than disease and illness. The story of the "fourth quill" comes from an Indian tale about a previous incarnation of the Buddha who discovers the "treasure of the ages" and it's not what he'd expected; Johnson retells the tale and derives a meaningful and life-affirming attitude that transcends the specific issues of AIDS in the 1980s.

Author: Toby Johnson
ISBN-10: 1727066928
ISBN-13: 9781727066920
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 09/04/2018
Pages: 298
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.67d
By Toby Johnson
By Toby Johnson
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Toby Johnson, Ph.D. and Kip Dollar, partners since 1984, ran Liberty Books, the lesbian/gay community bookstore in Austin for seven years in the 80s and 90s. They were the first male couple registered as Domestic Partners in Texas in 1993. In 2018, they were legally married on their 34th anniversary.

Johnson is a former Catholic monk and comparative religions scholar turned psychotherapist, gay activist, bookseller, editor and book designer, novelist and gay cultural commentator. He is author of five non-fiction titles that present spiritual wisdom he learned from his mentor and friend, renowned religions scholar Joseph Campbell, including Gay Spirituality: Gay Identity and the Transformation of Human Consciousness and Gay Perspective: Things our [homo]sexuality tells us about the nature of God and the Universe. Four gay genre novels, including Two Spirits: A Story of Life Among the Navajo (in collaboration with Walter L. Williams), are sweet adventure/romances woven through with wisdom and psychological insight.

Johnson's spiritual autobiography is titled Finding Your Own True Myth: What I Learned from Joseph Campbell. Toby Johnson has a webpage at tobyjohnson.com.

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