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Dark Reflections

Dark Reflections

Delany, Samuel R.

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Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels

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ISBN10: 0486836096
ISBN13: 9780486836096
Publisher: Dover Pubn Inc
Published: Dec 19 2019
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.60 Width: 4.90 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
A writer of seemingly limitless range. -- Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours.

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 Hawley's impulsive marriage to a homeless woman. A final section revisits the poet's student days, during 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.

A devastating and beautifully written study of the loneliness and despair that so often accompany the life of the mind in America. -- Publishers Weekly

Dark Reflections is among the most detailed, thoughtful, and heartbreaking portrayals of a writer's life. -- Los Angeles Review of Books

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