The Abomination
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The Abomination, a 2000 first novel by Paul Golding, is the story of Santiago Moore Zamora.
33-year-old Santiago Moore Zamora leads a dissolute life of wanton drug-fuelled homosexuality in current day London, selling his body to despised clients. The story then takes us back to his privileged childhood in the late 1950s. His Spanish mother and English father are surrounded by servants and young 'Iago' sees as much of nanny, cook and gardener as he does his parents who send him off to boarding school aged 6.
At his Prep school he becomes James Moore and at age 9 he is seduced by a paedophile master Mr Wolfe. The boy, however, has been welcoming and indeed encouraging the master in his advances and the encounter is gentle and loving. Another master suspects what’s going on and the headmaster and James’ parents are informed, but James protects Mr Wolfe and the relationship continues past the boy’s 13th birthday. Moving on to an English public school, James encounters the disgusting music teacher Dr Fox, who persuades him to attend piano lessons and then abuses him for the next few years.
