About this title: By the acclaimed author of "The Coming Storm, " this is the critically celebrated story tracing a disintegrating nuclear family across two decades of American life--from the early '60s to the '80s.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780312303723ISBN:0312303726
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: ST MARTINS PR INC
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780312303723ISBN:0312303726
Description: New. By the acclaimed author of "The Coming Storm, " this is the critically celebrated story tracing a disintegrating nuclear family across two decades of American life--from the early '60s to the '80s. read more
"Paul Russell is a fine writer--just the sort who can be expected to generate writing your Creative Writing Teacher would like. The Coming Storm and The Salt Point are more successful than The Sea of Tranquility. In the Sea of Tranquility, the three characters form a Mom-Dad-Son triad that is going centrifugal. Dad is a fading astronaut who doesn't know what to do with his later life. Mom is the neglected wife who turns to alcohol to solve her neglect problem. Son is a teen unable to make the connection between friendship and sex. In one memorable scene, Son is enjoyably being sodomized by his buddy in the basement, while Mom, aware of what is happening below, is in the living room getting drunk and envying the sexual attention that her son is getting. Many situations are plausible, but after a while, the reader is likely to feel that these characters are doing self-destructive things (predictably, the Son gets HIV) and are not capable of getting help. Their cluelessness is not believable. I threw away my copy"
"This wass very readable but not nearly as intense as Boys of Life. I've read The Salt Point, too, and neither come close to the power of Boys of Life. Maybe it's a personal thing with me, since I identify so closely with the narrator in Boys. Anyway, this is good enough in a gay novel kind of way.
What I liked about it is the range of topics covered: a lot of gay novels never get out of the gay ghetto, but this one marries AIDS, gay sex, and male relationships to travels in Turkey, NASA, space exploration, and gender roles in the 70s through the 90s. None of us really live in a gay ghetto - our lives are much richer than that, and I liked that this novel attempted to capture that."
"Fascinating odyssey of a story! The scope of this novel was fascinating, and the historical context provided that much more significance to the narrative."
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