| A Small Gathering of Bones Contributor(s): Powell, Patricia (Author), Glave, Thomas (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0807083674 ISBN-13: 9780807083673 Publisher: Beacon Press OUR PRICE: $14.85 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2003 Annotation: This award-winning novel initiates readers into the complex world of homosexuality and AIDS in the Caribbean. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2003057941 |
| Series: Bluestreak |
| Physical Information: 0.39" H x 5.4" W x 7.98" (0.38 lbs) 137 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: It's 1978, and Dale Singleton is becoming alarmed as his friend, Ian Kaysen, is afflicted with a mysterious and seemingly untreatable illness characterized by pneumonia, lesions, and dementia. This novel of the first days of AIDS is viscerally affecting, as it conveys the shocked puzzlement of those troubled by Ian's condition while simultaneously documenting Jamaican society's struggle to accept the dignity of gay love. Dale's world collapses, yet his experience of being gay in a middle-class culture circumscribed by church, family, and compulsory heterosexuality is hauntingly memorable-and familiar. |