{"product_id":"9781631732072","title":"Rapture","description":"\"Rapture\" follows the evolution of a gay man, Jerrod O'Rourke, from early youth to middle age.  In the first chapter he witnesses the murder of an aged black umpire at a softball game.  The sudden, guilt-ridden emptying of the ball diamond has the feel to this impressionable boy of the Biblical Rapture.      Later as a Sunday School boy, to prove he's not a sissy, he leads two church mates down the unknown side of a treacherous mountain.  This inspires a prompting of homosexual desire.      As a pianist at age 16, he dazzles the audience with a performance of a Liszt Rhapsody.  He subsequently lodges the family auto in a river of mud.  This leads to the discovery of not only being gay but scarily different.      Home from college, he's conned into terrorizing a queer motel.  This leads to a wee-small-hours romp or homegrown orgy in a deserted swimming pool.  A main player is lusty Phil, the love of his life.      After a stint in the Army there ensues a trip to San Francisco in search of the long-lost Phil.  Jerrod locates him at an underground baths.  To rescue him from drugs and sexual excess (S\u0026amp;M content), he abducts him to a remote mountain cabin.  After a period of uninhibited happiness, Phil dies in his arms from Hepatitis B.      In the end, Jerrod elopes with a young, handsome, black hustler.  In a symbolic sense, his own Rapture--the emptying of the past and embrace of a new, likely dangerous future.","brand":"James Hagerty","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47131015741680,"sku":"9781631732072","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781631732072_p0.jpg?v=1763673016","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781631732072","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}