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...wore afros and dashikis, went back and listened to music after lunch most times," Griffin says. "Those were the days of James Brown, Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, even some early Aretha Franklin--straight-line black stuff and some crazy stuff, too--the Chambers Brothers and Sly and the Family Stone...
...currents of homosexuality dominate this third volume. The theme was present but not expricit in th first novel and explicit but not much developed in the second. It may be that for Price the necessart sterility of gay sex reinforces his pervasive sense of failed connection between people. hutchins Mayfield, a poet and literature professor, and the father who tends gis estranged, AIDS afflicted son, is presented as bisexual, though he is married and his active gay experiences were in his youth. His bisexualtiy has multigenerational echoes. Mayfield's scapegrace father, whose sickness and death are the pivot...
...Mayfield's best friend, a somewhat overromanticized womanizer named Strawson, confesses that if Mayfield had but said the word 40 years before, "I'd have spent my whole life bearing your weight." Mayfield doubts that living together could have worked, with "the rest of our lives to kill while the world snickered at us at the grocery store: two old sissies, harmless as house dust." Nothing is resolved between the two except yearning...
...observe this steady, fearless staredown of loneliness for three novels is exhausting, though by no means tiresome. What relieves the strain is unfailing grace of language, as when Mayfield and Strawson drive the New Jersey Turnpike "through an outrage of traffic like the silent forced evacuation of Hell." Grace and seriousness are enough. Price's dour trilogy is rich, not bleak, a satisfying accomplishment by a fine artist...
...Mayfield's brother Curtis R. Dickson, who has defended Grant's right to keep the killing of her mother private, said yesterday that reports that Grant would attend Tufts were "just a rumor...