"The 13 highly varied stories that make up Certain Ecstasies move effortlessly from deep emotion to rollicking humor, from autobiography to flights of pure imagination, from literary fiction to explicit eroticism - sometimes in the same sentence. Certain Ecstasies is a baker's dozen of tales both sacred and profane, both enjoyable and profound. They are stories of that pulse with feeling while breaking all the rules, pushing all the buttons, and staking a highly personal claim on gay male fiction. "--BOOK JACKET.