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The lost language of cranes
- Author
- Leavitt, David, 1961-
- Title
- The lost language of cranes / David Leavitt.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Published
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1986.
- Description
- 319 pages ; 22 cm
- Summary
- 25 year-old Philip realizes he must come out to his parents after falling in love for the first time with a man. Philip's parents are facing their own crisis: pressure from developers and the loss of their longtime home. But the real threat to this family is Philip's father's own struggle with his latent homosexuality, realized only in his Sunday afternoon visits to gay porn theaters. Philip's admission to his parents and his father's hidden life provoke changes that forever alter the landscape of their worlds.
- Subject headings
- Coming out (Sexual orientation)--Fiction. Real estate development--Fiction. Parent and adult child--Fiction. Sexual orientation--Fiction. Fathers and sons--Fiction. Closeted gay people--Fiction. Young men--Fiction. Gay men--Fiction.
- ISBN
- 0394538730 9780394538730 9781620407028 1620407027