Real life
About this book
"A novel of rare emotional power that excavates the social intricacies of a late-summer weekend -- and a lifetime of buried pain. Almost everything about Wallace, an introverted African-American transplant from Alabama, is at odds with the lakeside Midwestern university town where he is working toward a biochem degree. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even within his own circle of friends -- some dating each other, some dating women, some feigning straightness. But a series of confrontations with colleagues, and an unexpected encounter with a young straight man, conspire to fracture his defenses, while revealing hidden currents of resentment and desire that threaten the equilibrium of their community"--
Subjects
- african american gay men
- american literature
- collection:edmund_white_award=finalist
- fiction
- fiction, african american & black, general
- fiction / african american / general
- fiction, african american, general
- fiction, gay
- fiction / lgbt / gay
- fiction, lgbtq+, gay
- fiction / literary
- friendship
- graduate students
- interpersonal relations
- new york times reviewed