"This book is packed with emotionally harsh, tense, and gritty truth that unfolds in elegant, sharp, and fierce prose. His intensity and levels of obsession excite me."
Colm Toibin

A young literature student, well aware of his beauty and his seductive power, becomes obsessed with a rock star twenty years his senior who lives in the small college town in the southern United States to which he has just moved. . When they finally meet, the rocker experiences a strong attraction to the young man and the two begin a relationship that is as passionate as it is tortuous, marked by the profound asymmetry of their respective life situations: while the rocker, at the peak of his popularity, is completely absorbed in his career, the young man is shipwrecked between emotional setbacks and economic hardships, so guilt and resentment very soon take over the relationship.

Since its publication in the United States in the year 2000, My Lover's Sketch was considered a sort of queer initiation novel, which pays tribute, among other works, to Marguerite Duras's The Lover. Precursor of what we know today as autofiction, the intimate gaze of its narrator makes us witnesses of his story of abandonment and family violence, his growing obsession with celebrity and the capricious behavior of his lover, and his need to find a life project. that allows him to escape poverty, portraying with enormous authenticity and emotion the fragments of an existence that seems lived to become literature.