The Beauty of Men: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (682 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0688048579 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Tour.. By the author of Dancer from the Dance. Lark's mourning over the loss of his youth and of friends and acquaintances, his visits to his dying mother, and his actual and remembered visits to boat docks and baths comprise a narrative of loneliness, aging, and obsessive desire
. All he really has is an abundance of memories of the unsatisfied life of a middle-aged gay man. "I've been a flop as a homosexual," says Lake. In this examination of a life given to thinking about worry and lust, Andrew Holleran raises disturbing questions for people of every sexual preference. Lake doesn't work and doesn't have friends, a job, or even a first name. The book revolves around Lake's recollection of a time spent lost and hopeless and takes place in Gainesville, Florida, a place as unspectacular as his existence
Oh, so sad; yet frighteningly genuine. As a post-epidemic work, some might find this book either irrelevant or a curiosity from another age. It is most emphatically neither. While many younger gay readers will possibly fail to grasp the pathos of the subject's life, a very large part of that life has been painfully lived down to the last detail by tho. Depressing? Or on target? John A. Koehler All the reader reviews posted here have merit, those which point to the hypnotic prose, those which register aggravation for the author's angst. The truth, from this reader's perspective, is best summarized from all these viewpoints.I was spellbound as others were, by the vivid descriptions Holleran so effortless. Frank (fmlester@pacbell.net) said An important book but a vexing one. The first time I read this book, I was moved enough to read it through in one sitting. Re-reading it two years later, I am conflicted about it. It is incredibly well-written, has many crucial observations to make about gay life in the late twentieth century (as Holleran always has), and has a distinctive, authori