Dark reflections /
"This Stonewall Book Award-winning novel traces the life and unrealized dreams of Arnold Hawley, a gay African American poet. The tale unfolds in three non-chronological parts, starting in the twenty-first century with Hawley's lonely old age and the failure of his latest volume of poetry....
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Mineola, New York :
Dover Publications, Inc.,
2019.
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| Edition: | Dover edition. |
| Series: | Dover thrift editions.
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| Summary: | "This Stonewall Book Award-winning novel traces the life and unrealized dreams of Arnold Hawley, a gay African American poet. The tale unfolds in three non-chronological parts, starting in the twenty-first century with Hawley's lonely old age and the failure of his latest volume of poetry. The narrative then retreats to the 1970s to recount his impulsive marriage to a homeless woman. A final section revisits the poet's student days, in which an aborted sexual encounter sets the pattern for a lifetime of regrets and missed opportunities. A meditation on isolation and sexual repression, Dark Reflections also offers an acerbic look at the literary world and the frustrations intrinsic to artistic life"-- |
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| Item Description: | "This Dover edition, first published in 2019, is an unabridged republication of the work published by Carroll & Graf Publishers, New York, in 2007. This edition incorporates the author's corrections and revisions to the text. A new introductory note has been prepared specially for this edition"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | v, 214 pages ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780486836096 0486836096 |