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      A Small Gathering Of Bones

      by Patricia Powell
      Published
      Dec 2003
      Main Genre
      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      144
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      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.

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      Genres

      General Fiction

      Subgenres

      Historical

      Themes

      Jewish

      Characters & Occupations

      LGBTQ

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      Dec 1994 William Heinemann (UK) ISBN13 9780435989361 ISBN10 0435989367
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      Dec 2003 Beacon Press (MA) ISBN13 9780807083673 ISBN10 0807083674
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