Recent History: A Novel
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0375759387 / Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks, April 2002
The playwright and author focuses on the issues of race, sex, class, and secrets as they affect an upwardly mobile Italian-American family in 1960s Massachusetts as one man confronts his conflicting feelings about love, passion, and sexual identity. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
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In 1962, twelve-year-old Luca Carcera’s father suddenly moves out of the house under mysterious circumstances and surfaces across town in a run-down rooming house, living with another man. This event casts a long shadow over Luca’s own sexual coming-of-age, calling into dramatic question every relationship he develops—or fails to. Years later, Luca enters his own marriage harboring a sexual secret that, in an earlier era, might have remained a secret, but which now forces him to confront, in the most painful way, the strictly demarcated boundaries of male sexuality.
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