A Small Gathering of Bones
Download or Read eBook A Small Gathering of Bones PDF written by Patricia Powell and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2003-12-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Patricia Powell |
| Publisher | : Beacon Press |
| Total Pages | : 156 |
| Release | : 2003-12-01 |
| ISBN-10 | : 0807083674 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9780807083673 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis A Small Gathering of Bones by : Patricia Powell
Book excerpt: 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. "
