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 The Lost Language of Cranes
(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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Married people, Gay men, Padre e hijo, Fathers and sons, Fiction, Hombres gays, Matrimonios, Ficción, Parent and adult child, Coming out (Sexual orientation), Young men, Closeted gays, Sexual orientation, Real estate development, 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, general, Amerikaanse letterkunde, Sortir du placard (Homosexualité), Romans, nouvelles, Promotion immobilière, Parents et enfants adultes, Orientation sexuelle, Pères et fils, Homosexuels dans le placard, Jeunes hommes, Homosexuels masculins, LGBTQ novels, LGBTQ coming outTimes
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The Lost Language of Cranes
Nov 20, 2014, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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1408854589 9781408854587
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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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