EARLY ON A rainy Sunday afternoon in November a man was hurrying down Third Avenue, past closed and barred florist shops and newsstands, his hands stuffed into his pockets and his head bent against the wind.
An edition of Lost Language of Cranes, The
(1986)
The lost language of cranes
by David Leavitt
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David Leavitt's extraordinary first novel, now reissued in paperback, is a seminal work about family, sexual identity, home, and loss.
Set in the 1980s against the backdrop of a swiftly gentrifying Manhattan, The Lost Language of Cranes tells the story of twenty-five-year-old Philip, who realizes he must come out to his parents after falling in love for the first time with a man. Philip's parents are facing their own crisis: pressure from developers and the loss of their longtime home. But the real threat to this family is Philip's father's own struggle with his latent homosexuality, realized only in his Sunday afternoon visits to gay porn theaters. Philip's admission to his parents and his father's hidden life provoke changes that forever alter the landscape of their worlds
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Fiction, Gay men, Fathers and sons, Parent and adult child, Coming out (Sexual orientation), Young men, Closeted gays, Sexual orientation, Real estate development, Ficción, Married people, Padre e hijo, Matrimonios, Homosexuales varones, Fiction, psychological, New york (n.y.), fiction, Gay men, fiction, Fathers and sons, fiction, American fiction, Homosexuality in literature, Fiction, lgbtq+, gay, Married people, fiction, Fiction, generalPlaces
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El lenguaje perdido de las grúas
1997, Editorial Anagrama
in Spanish
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8433920928 9788433920928
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The lost language of cranes
1986, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
in English
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0394538730 9780394538730
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