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Let Me See It

By James Magruder

Let Me See It

By James Magruder

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James Magruder’s collection of linked stories follows two gay cousins, Tom and Elliott, from adolescence in the 1970s to adulthood in the early ’90s. With a rueful blend of comedy and tenderness, Magruder depicts their attempts to navigate the closet and the office and the lessons they learn about libidinous co-workers, résumé boosting, Italian suffixes, and frozen condoms. As Tom and Elliot search for trusting relationships while the AIDS crisis deepens, their paths diverge, leading Tom to a new sense of what matters most. Magruder is especially adept at rendering the moments that reveal unwritten codes of behaviour to his characters who have no way of learning them except through painful experience. Loss is sudden, the fallout portrayed with a powerful economy. In Tom and Elliott, readers come to recognise themselves, driven by the same absurd desires and unconscious impulses, subjected to the same fates.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
208
Release Date:
2014-06-03
Publication Date:
2014-06-03
Publisher:
Univ of Chicago Behalf Northwestern Univ Pres
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0810152444
ISBN13:
9780810152441
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
329 g
Height:
151 cm
Width:
228 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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