The Red Shoes by John Stewart Wynne - A Review by Raphael Klarfeld, MD

The book begins with a Prologue, and the Prologue begins with a quip, "Man lives by faith they say, but personally I think man wants to render faith unnecessary. The story of John Laith is introduced as a man who lives across from an Episcopal Seminary in Chelsea, NewYork. Sitting on a grey stone bench on the seminary grounds in the aftermath of the loss of his lover, Frank, to HIV,  he sees a man opposite himself apparently reading a Wall Street Journal but in fact was openly masturbating underneath it.