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Article: Cumming up next: Alan Cumming talks about his new novel--the latest success in the talented Scot's assault on all media. (Books).
- Article from:
- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- September 17, 2002
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Tommy's Tale, the debut novel of actor Alan Cumming, is the story of a child-man caught between a comfy flat with his quirky North London roommates and instant domesticity with his boyfriend. He's also caught between his 20s and his 30s, an age that Cumming says is a "very big deal" for all it represents about maturity. But most of all, Tommy's caught between the club scene and something decidedly less ephemeral--fatherhood.
Cumming is grappling with these dilemmas himself. The possibility of raising a child is "why I wrote the book," he says, and he is pleased that during the four-plus years he took to write the novel, its subject of gay parenthood has emerged ...