The Journey is Home

The Journey is Home
John Sam Jones
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Hardback
h203 x 127mm - 200pg
1 May 2021 UK
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9781912681747
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In this clear and absorbing memoir John Sam Jones writes of a life lived on the edge. It' s a story of journeys and realisation, of acceptance and joy. From a boyhood on the coast of Wales to a traumatic period as an undergraduate inAberystwyth, and on to a scholarship at Berkley on the San Francisco Bay as the AIDSepidemic began to take hold before returning to Liverpool and north Wales to work inchaplaincy, education and sexual health. A journey of becoming a writer and chroniclerof his experiences with award-winning books and the somewhat reluctant compulsionto become a campaigner for LGBT rights in Wales. The adventure of running a guesthouse in Barmouth where he eventually became Mayor with his husband, a Germanacademic, whom he had married after a long partnership. Just days after European Referendum they put the business on the market. . . and thenmoved to Germany. John is still on that journey.
After working in ministry, education and public health for more than thirty years,John Sam Jones lives in semi-retirement with his husband and two Welsh Collies in asmall German village a stone' s throw from the Dutch border. John realised he was gayas a teenager at the beginning of the 1970s and quickly came to understand that his lifewould be lived always on the edge - between truth and lies, rejection and ridicule, self-doubt and a search for acceptance. He ultimately chose to negotiate a route throughlife where honesty and integrity, in an often toxically homophobic society, were notalways appreciated. In 2001 he became the first co-chair of the LGB Forum Cymru(which was later renamed Stonewall Cymru), set up to advise the Welsh Governmenton LGB issues. He studied creative writing at Chester. His collection of short stories - Welsh BoysToo, - was an Honour Book winner in the American Library Association StonewallBook Awards. His second collection, Fishboys of Vernazza, was short-listed forWelsh Book of the Year which was followed by the novels, With Angels and Furies& Crawling Through Thorns.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781912681747
Published: 1 May 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Parthian Books
Publisher: Parthian Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 203mm
Width: 127mm
Pages: 200

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