Sex with strangers / Geoffrey Rees.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rees, Geoffrey, author.

Contributor:

Penn Sexuality Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay men--Fiction.

Gay men.

Chicago (Ill.)--Fiction.

Chicago (Ill.).

Illinois--Chicago.

Genre:

Gay fiction.

Bildungsromans.

Fiction.

Proofs (Printing) -- New York (State) -- New York -- 1993.

Physical Description:

245 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1993.

Summary:

When Thomas Hobart boards a train and heads west to attend college in Chicago, he leaves behind a world of unspoken feeling. On the train he meets Dennis, a conductor, and every Thursday evening for the next year they meet in a downtown hotel for a series of passionate, next-to-wordless encounters. "Love without lust, lust without love" becomes Thomas's motto, and, true to it, he keeps his liaisons with Dennis a secret from his newfound college friends Michael and Jane. When Dennis ventures to break the pattern of their affair and enter Thomas's world, their relationship fails. But everything Thomas has come to believe in is called into question when he visits New York City and meets Stuart, a handsome, enigmatic painter. Thomas quickly becomes immersed in Stuart's artistic life, and just as quickly becomes lost in the complications of love. Not until his own life has fallen apart does Thomas begin to locate the sources of his feelings, to recognize his need to join love and sex, desire and obligation, carnal satisfaction and emotional fulfillment.

Notes:

The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. ‡5 TXA

Local Notes:

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.

ISBN:

0374261652

9780374261658

OCLC:

27894839