TY - BOOK AU - Powell, Patricia, TI - A small gathering of bones T2 - Caribbean writers series SN - 0435989367 AV - PR9265.9.P64 S6 1994 U1 - 813 20 PY - 1994/// CY - Oxford PB - Heinemann KW - Gays KW - Diseases KW - Jamaica KW - Fiction KW - 18.07 English literature outside Europe and the USA KW - bcl KW - fast KW - Jamaican fiction KW - gtt KW - English fiction KW - Psychological fiction KW - Novels (texts) KW - lcgft KW - Historical fiction KW - gsafd N2 - Dale's passionate relationship with Nevin is foundering. Hope and despair, jealousy and yearning battle within him. He must confront the antagonism of family, church and society to his homosexuality. A mysterious illness is threatening the gay community of late 1970s Jamaica. When Dale's friends succumb to it, his own isolation increases and he is pushed towards desperate action ER -