Tommy's Tale - by Alan Cumming (Paperback)

About the Book

"Tommy is twenty-nine, lives and loves in London, and has a morbid fear of the c word (commitment), the b word (boyfriend), and the f word (forgetting to call his drug dealer before the weekend). But when he begins to feel the urge to become a father, he starts to wonder if his chosen lifestyle can ever make him happy"--Back cover.

From the Back Cover

Tommy is twenty-nine, lives and loves in London, and has a morbid fear of the c word (commitment), the b word (boyfriend), and the f word (forgetting to call his drug dealer before the weekend). But when he begins to feel the urge to become a father, he starts to wonder if his chosen lifestyle can ever make him happy. Faced with the choice of maintaining his hedonistic, drugged-out, and admittedly fabulous existence or chucking it all in favor of a far more sensitive, fulfilling--and let's face it--sober lifestyle, Tommy finds himself in a true quandary. Through a series of adventures and misadventures that lead him from London nightspots to New York bedrooms and back, our boy Tommy manages to answer some of life's most pressing questions--and even some he never thought to ask.

Review Quotes

"Alan Cumming is a frolicky pan-sexual sex symbol for the new millennium." - New York Observer

"Tommy's Tale is a romp of a book, a rollick, a rumpus. Cumming cavorts as saucily on the page as on the stage." - Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked

"Insightful and clever." - Publishers Weekly

"Randy [and] ribald . . . a bisexual About a Boy, only with lots more shagging and partying. . . . A naughty diversion. B+" - Entertainment Weekly

"Witty, observant, and decadent, Tommy's Tale is told from a frightfully fabulous vantage point." - Gotham

"Queer as Folk meets About a Boy. [Cumming is] a better novelist than Ethan Hawke or Rupert Everett." - Time Out New York