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The Journey is Home
Notes from a life on the edge
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Pub Date
1 Nov 2021
| Archive Date
4 Jul 2022
Description
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 in Aberystwyth, and on to a scholarship at Berkley on the San Francisco Bay as the AIDS epidemic began to take hold, before returning to Liverpool and north Wales to work in chaplaincy, education, and sexual health. A journey of becoming a writer and chronicler of his experiences with award-winning books and the somewhat reluctant compulsion to become a campaigner for LGBT rights in Wales. The adventure of running a guest house in Barmouth where he eventually became Mayor with his husband, a German academic, whom he had married after a long partnership. Just days after European Referendum they put the business on the market... and then moved to Germany. John is still on that journey.
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...
Description
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 in Aberystwyth, and on to a scholarship at Berkley on the San Francisco Bay as the AIDS epidemic began to take hold, before returning to Liverpool and north Wales to work in chaplaincy, education, and sexual health. A journey of becoming a writer and chronicler of his experiences with award-winning books and the somewhat reluctant compulsion to become a campaigner for LGBT rights in Wales. The adventure of running a guest house in Barmouth where he eventually became Mayor with his husband, a German academic, whom he had married after a long partnership. Just days after European Referendum they put the business on the market... and then moved to Germany. John is still on that journey.
Advance Praise
This beautifully constructed and moving book is a story of a life lived on the margins, and a search for home and belonging. Like a precious stone, the book’s multiple facets reflect different parts of the journey which glisten and dazzle. John Sam Jones vividly explores his sexuality, scarred by a homophobic culture and time, discovers family secrets, confronts shame and guilt, institutional abuse and sexual violence, explores his faith and friendships, and eventually finds deep and enduring love. And through and in that journey, lived always on the edges, he discovers joy and fulfilment, and finds his way home.
-Jeffrey Weeks OBE, author of Coming Out
This beautifully constructed and moving book is a story of a life lived on the margins, and a search for home and belonging. Like a precious stone, the book’s multiple facets reflect different parts...
Advance Praise
This beautifully constructed and moving book is a story of a life lived on the margins, and a search for home and belonging. Like a precious stone, the book’s multiple facets reflect different parts of the journey which glisten and dazzle. John Sam Jones vividly explores his sexuality, scarred by a homophobic culture and time, discovers family secrets, confronts shame and guilt, institutional abuse and sexual violence, explores his faith and friendships, and eventually finds deep and enduring love. And through and in that journey, lived always on the edges, he discovers joy and fulfilment, and finds his way home.
-Jeffrey Weeks OBE, author of Coming Out
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Simultaneous publication of Welsh language version, Y Daith Ydi Adra, translated by Sian Northey.
Simultaneous publication of Welsh language version, Y Daith Ydi Adra, translated by Sian Northey.
Available Editions
| EDITION |
Other Format |
| ISBN |
9781912681747 |
| PRICE |
US$20.00 (USD)
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| PAGES |
250
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Additional Information
Available Editions
| EDITION |
Other Format |
| ISBN |
9781912681747 |
| PRICE |
US$20.00 (USD)
|
| PAGES |
250
|
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