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- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
'Morituri Salutamus,
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ZIN Product Number: 10007887
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 228 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 0060975881
Release Date: Jan 6, 2001
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 1 review.)
| |  | | | In Brief
John, the "19-year-old narrator, escapes from an abusive family to NewYork and meets Martin. They fall in love. Martin develops AIDS, they move to Kansas, and Martin dies. Throughout the narrative are stories written by John after Martin's death about a couple that is always named Martin and John, though they are different characters." (Libr J)
| | | | From The Publisher
In this auspicious debut, Dale Peck weaves together two sets of stories to create a compelling portrait of an artist in our time. The first is told episodically by John, who flees an abusive father and becomes a hustler in New York City. It's 1982, and at the age of nineteen John falls in love with Martin, who soon becomes ill with AIDS. They leave New York for Kansas, where Martin dies two years later. In his struggle to regain his own health, John obsessively orders his existence. He begins to keep a journal and then to write stories. Interwoven with this narrative is a second set of stories, penned by John. Each has a first-person narrator named John; each centers on a couple named Martin and John, who are always, it turns out, different characters. John knows he is HIV-positive, but through his writing he learns to accept the prospect of a life that, however brief, has at least been examined. In the end, the "Martin and John" stories illuminate the frame narrative, embodying John's belief - and the author's - that "every fiction is opposed to some truth." In luminous prose and with a frankness about sexuality rarely seen in contemporary fiction, Dale Peck has written a haunting, heartrending novel that establishes him as one of our most daring young American writers.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 1 Average Rating:
landmark in reading
-- Andy Gallacher, a 26yr old Brit in San Francisco, January 27, 2000
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
An innovatively constructed novel of gay love, gay death, and the narrator's belief that "every fiction is opposed to some truth." "Dale Peck has written a powerful first novel, a book to be read not only for its promise of an impressive career, but also for its own stark and violent beauties"--Mona Simpson, Chicago Tribune
| |  | | | The Word On The Street
The best book of the year...The somber lyricism, the fresh conception of form, the profoundly human grasp of character all suggest that this touchingly young writer will have a great future. —Edmund White
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| | | | | | Keywords
Fiction, AIDS (Disease), Patients, Gay men, Authors, AIDS (Disease), Patients, Fiction, Authors, Gay men, Fiction - General, Gay
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