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Roiling 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...
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