A small gathering of bones / Patricia Powell.

By:

Powell, Patricia, 1966-

Series: TitlePublication details: Boston : Beacon Press, 2003.Description: x, 137 pages ; 21 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0807083674
9780807083673

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

813/.54 22
F Pow

LOC classification:

PR9265.9.P68 S63 2003

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	National Library of Jamaica	Daphne Douglas Reading Room	F Ja Pow (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		1000000021644
Books	OCLC Data	Rare Books Floor	F Pow (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		0000000010114

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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.

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