TY  - BOOK
AU  - Powell, Patricia,
TI  - A small gathering of bones
SN  - 0807083674
AV  - PR9265.9.P68 S63 2003
U1  - 813/.54 22
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Beacon Press
KW  - AIDS (Disease)
KW  - Patients
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Gay men
KW  - fast
KW  - Jamaica
KW  - Psychological fiction
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - lcgft
N2  - 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
ER  -