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Fiction of Gay Interest
Plot / Content: Rating: G David Leavitt's first novel, dealing with Philip Benjamin's difficulties in coming out as a young gay man. Background / Biography:
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"Early on a rainy Sunday afternoon in November a man was hurrying down Third Avenue, past closed and barred florist shops and newsstands, his hands stuffed in his pockets and his head bent against the wind. The avenue was deserted except for an occasional cab, which parted the gray water puddled in the potholes and sent it streaming. Behind the lighted windows of apartment buildings people stretched, divided the Sunday Times, poured coffee into glazed mugs, but in the street it was a different scene: A bum covered by soggy shopping bags huddled in a closed storefront; a woman in a brown coat held a paper over her head and ran; a pair of cops whose walkie-talkies blared distorted voices listened to an old woman weep in front of a pink enamelled building. What, the man wondered, was he, a decent and respectable man, with a well-heated apartment, good books to read, a coffee maker, doing out among these people, out in the street on a cold Sunday morning? He laughed at himself for still asking the question and pressed on. No matter what he pretended, he knew, he was going where he was going." opening paragraph Secondhand booksellers |
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