The Lost Language of Cranes
About this book
David Leavitt's extraordinary first novel, now reissued in paperback, is a seminal work about family, sexual identity, home, and loss.
Set in the 1980s against the backdrop of a swiftly gentrifying Manhattan, The Lost Language of Cranes tells the story of twenty-five-year-old Philip, who realizes he must come out to his parents after falling in love for the first time with a man. Philip's parents are facing their own crisis: pressure from developers and the loss of their longtime home. But the real threat to this family is Philip's father's own struggle with his latent homosexuality, realized only in his Sunday afternoon visits to gay porn theaters. Philip's admission to his parents and his father's hidden life provoke changes that forever alter the landscape of their worlds
Subjects
- american fiction
- amerikaanse letterkunde
- closeted gays
- coming out (sexual orientation)
- fathers and sons
- fathers and sons, fiction
- ficción
- fiction
- fiction, general
- fiction, lgbtq+, gay
- fiction, psychological
- gay men
- gay men, fiction
- hombres gays
- homosexuales varones
- homosexuality in literature
- homosexuels dans le placard
- homosexuels masculins
- jeunes hommes
- lgbtq coming out
- lgbtq novels
- married people
- married people, fiction
- matrimonios
- new york (n.y.), fiction
- orientation sexuelle
- padre e hijo
- parent and adult child
- parents et enfants adultes
- pères et fils
- promotion immobilière
- real estate development
- romans, nouvelles
- sexual orientation
- sortir du placard (homosexualité)
- young men