A Small Gathering of Bones (Bluestreak, #21) (Caribbean Writers S.)

by Patricia Powell

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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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  • ISBN10 0807083674
  • ISBN13 9780807083673
  • Publish Date 1 December 2003 (first published 15 November 1994)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Beacon Press