A Single Man
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0816638624 / Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, April 2001
A professor at a California university in the 1960s must deal with loneliness and a sense of disconnection after the death of his longtime partner.
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When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife. George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life on his own after the sudden death of his partner, determined to persist in the routines of his daily life. An Englishman and a professor living in suburban Southern California, he is an outsider in every way, and his internal reflections and interactions with others reveal a man who loves being alive despite everyday injustices and loneliness. Wry, suddenly manic, constantly funny, surprisingly sad, this novel catches the texture of life itself.
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