Andrew Holleran/grief
Approx. Words: 1,800 - Pages: 8 Add to cart Price $87.60
...novel, Grief, does a conventional plot in that hardly anything happens, either to or in regards to action taken by the novel’s unnamed protagonist, who is in Washington, D.C. to teach a seminar entitled “Literature and AIDS.” The protagonist, who provides the narrative voice of the novel, has a house in Florida, is grieving over the death of his mother, is gay, and has lost a great many of his friends to AIDS. While the narrator is somewhat younger than his middle-aged landlord who is also homosexual, he—like his landlord—has reached a point in life where he ponders the meaning of his existence, which means that he also grieves for his own lost prospects and confronts the specter of loneliness that appears to be typical of the homosexual life style for many gay men.
As this suggests, Holleran deals with internal spaces in this novel, the thoughts, attitudes and observations of the narrator towards life, the people who interact with him, and – most significantly—towards grief. In so doing, the author...
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