Letting Loose - Hardcover

Leland, Christopher T.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0944072690 ISBN 13: 9780944072691

Publisher: Zoland Books, 1996

Synopsis

Offers the powerful story of what one man's life, disappearance, and death means to those he knew, loved, and, ultimately left behind during the Vietnam War; the gay, feminist, and sexual revolutions of the 1960s and 1970s; the drugs, greed and AIDS of the 1980s; and the uncertainty of the 1990s. IP.

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from reviews of LETTING LOOSE
"In this, Leland's fifth novel, he captures with compassion and exquisite delicacy the hopes and regrets of the survivors of fragmenting social upheaval." --Anna Garris Goiser, THE MIDWESTERNER

"Leland's graphic and gripping fifth novel accurately depicts the tumult and divisions of the Sixties and the precarious roads chosen by individuals. Highly recommended for all fiction collections." --Sheila M. Riley, LIBRARY JOURNAL

"...an outstanding novel. The marvelous characters make it a truthful story of growth and redemption." --J. Scott Boyd, THE WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL

"A sweeping novel about generational change... Leland writes with generous feeling and beauty." --PUBISHER'S WEEKLY

"...remarkably expressive, both in the depiction of character and in its redemptive words at the end... A novel that should take its place on the bookshelf of memorable millennium novels." --Barbara Halliday, THE DETROIT FREE PRESS

"...this novel--laced with graphic violence as well as graphic gay and straight sex--makes a strong antiwar statement" --Michele Leber, BOOKLIST

"There are books that capture an era so completely, they become indelibly linked to that time ever after... Christopher Leland's new novel, LETTING LOOSE, is of that caliber, a broad, sweeping good time of a read that keeps you riveted to every word... Get this book today." --John Sonego, BETWEEN THE LINES

"The enormously talented Christopher Leland take us from soldiers' bars to gay nightlife in Manhattan with the greatest of ease. The felicitous control he exercises in tracing this emotionally complicated tale is rare and enviable." --Tom Steele, THE NEW YORK NATIVE

"This is a book turbulent with lamentation and loss, but its landfall is nothing short of redemption." --Susan Dodd, author of HELL-BENT MEN AND THEIR CITIES

"...LETTING LOOSE possesses an epic sweep and an impressive ability to capture the historical moment. But Leland's greatest strength lies in his finely-etched character portraits. These glimpses of individuals adrift in history make LETTING LOOSE an enormously touching novel." --Neil Miller, author of IN SEARCH OF GAY AMERICA

"This is a Vietnam novel unlike any you will ever encounter. It's about a soldier, but it's also about his friends, his famiy, his ghost, his legacy. In Bobbo Starwick, Leland has conjured up a phantom from the front lines who embraces our history." --Daniel Vilmure, author of TOBY'S LIE

About this edition

• Publisher: Zoland Books
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0944072690
• ISBN 13: 9780944072691
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 340