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Merlis's first novel centers on an aging, hospitalized, gay man and his recollections spanning 50 years of gay life in America.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Reeve is lain up in the hospital after being beaten up by a man he picked up in a bar. As he recuperates, he considers his life to date, thus revealing to us the significant details. Reeve contemplates meticulously and mournfully on four levels: his flirtation with the handsome young straight in the next bed; the degradation and eventual suicide of his friend Tom Slater, a martyr to McCarthyism; his own beating by the hustler; and the outline of his life. Reeve is an uncommonly thoughtful and perceptive man; there is a wealth of feeling and literary knowledge in this work, surely one of the finest first novels to appear in many a moon. Its simple, noble, graceful prose refreshes the very language, and its unsquinting portrayal of gay men is searing and authentic. Merlis's novel belongs to the best of contemporary literature, gay or other. Recommended for most collections.
Brian Geary, West Seneca, N.Y.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Merlis's first novel centers on an aging, hospitalized, gay man and his recollections spanning 50 years of gay life in America.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Reeve is lain up in the hospital after being beaten up by a man he picked up in a bar. As he recuperates, he considers his life to date, thus revealing to us the significant details. Reeve contemplates meticulously and mournfully on four levels: his flirtation with the handsome young straight in the next bed; the degradation and eventual suicide of his friend Tom Slater, a martyr to McCarthyism; his own beating by the hustler; and the outline of his life. Reeve is an uncommonly thoughtful and perceptive man; there is a wealth of feeling and literary knowledge in this work, surely one of the finest first novels to appear in many a moon. Its simple, noble, graceful prose refreshes the very language, and its unsquinting portrayal of gay men is searing and authentic. Merlis's novel belongs to the best of contemporary literature, gay or other. Recommended for most collections.
Brian Geary, West Seneca, N.Y.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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- American Literature & the Culture Wars (Cornell Paperbacks) by Gregory S. Jay on page 152, and Back Matter
- Boys Like Us by Patrick Merla in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Hear Us Out: Conversations with Gay Novelists (Between Men~Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies) by Richard Canning on page 63, and page 230
- Democracy and the Arts by Arthur M. Melzer on page 118, and Back Matter
- The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes by Greil Marcus on page 89, and page 229
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