In All The Silent Manliness

ISBN-13: 9781456555238 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 404 str.

Lou Kief

Opis

Like thousands of young and not-so-young men before him, Barry Lowe ran away. He ran from exhaustion of keeping a secret life from his family and friends. He ran from the fear of disappointing his parents and facing their wrath. He ran from the rejection of the first man he dared to love. He ran from the sickening smells and sounds of the funeral home where he had been raised. But most of all, he ran as fast as he could from the body of his wife on the embalming table. He knew the time had passed when he could hide the truth of who he was. In All The Silent Manliness is the story of Barry Lowe's escape to the San Francisco of the 1970s. It follows him to the Castro and watches as he tries to drown himself and his memories in a life of alcohol and sex peppered with just enough carpentry work to keep him alive. When his brother is killed in a car accident, Barry makes a reluctant trip back home to help his ailing father and mother handle the funeral for their youngest son. In the five days he's there he relives his childhood in that same building, recalling memories of the funniest and most bizarre things he experienced. Returning to Castro Street, he finds he has becomes a more mature, understanding person, ready to live a life as a proud, openly gay man. In All The Silent Manliness is a powerful, deeply touching, laugh-out-loud story of self-discovery, acceptance, forgiveness and redemption. The novel is fast moving and forces readers to surrender to the unpredictability of what is coming around the next corner.