American Studies - Hardcover

Merlis, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395689929 ISBN 13: 9780395689929

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade), 1996

Synopsis

Infused with desire, betrayal, and healing, Mark Merils writes with dark humor of gay life in this century. Meet Reeve who thinks his life is over: his career is at an end and his landlord is evicting him because he made too much noise when a hustler beat him up. As he lies in his hospital bed, he finds himself brooding about the parallel ruin of his mentor Tom Slater, a famous American literary scholar. There is the further distraction of the patient in the next bed, a silent youth who arouses the desire in Reeve for straight men.

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Review:

'Windy Dryden offers a down-to-earth introduction to the theory and practice of counselling which will serve to aid and inspire trainees' -
Professor Brian Thorne, co-founder of The Norwich Centre and Emeritus Professor of Counselling,
University of East Anglia

Synopsis:

A witty look at gay life over the last fifty years focuses on Reeve, a hospitalized sixty-two-year-old gay man, who thinks back to his college years and his troubled relationship with famed literary scholar Tom Slater.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0395689929
• ISBN 13: 9780395689929
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 275