The Nature of Longing
The eight stories in The Nature of Longing move beyond conventional boundaries of race and gender to explore the universal desire to belong. Avoiding easy answers, Alyce Miller probes the overlapping worlds of blacks, whites, gays, and straights, all caught in the ordinary human struggle to connect with parents, spouses, lovers, friends, and children. In the title story, a gay librarian in upstate New York is cruelly outed but finds comfort in the letter of a man he's never met. In Color Struck, a black mother in East Oakland struggles with her inability to name, and thus to accept, her albino daughter. In Summer in Detroit, a black man, visi…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-31379-6
- EAN: 9780393313796
- Produktnummer: 9362364
- Verlag: W W Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1995
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B13.6 cm x D1.6 cm 231 g
- Gewicht: 231
Über den Autor
Alyce Miller is a visiting assistant professor in creative writing at Ohio University in Athens.
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