![]() ![]() It was a changing point in my life because it tested me in many ways. for my first job after college.Įxcept for one family friend, I didnt' know anyone there. The loneliest I ever felt - and there is a big difference between being lonely and being alone - is when i moved to Washington D.C. ![]() Moving among beautifully delineated characters in a variety of social milieus, Edmund White brings narrative daring and an exquisite sense of life's submerged drama to this masterful exploration of friendship, sexuality, and sensibility during a watershed moment in history. And as Will embraces his heterosexual sensuality, nearly destroying his marriage, the two men share a newfound libertinism in a city that is itself embracing its freedom. ![]() But in the two decades of their friendship, from the first stirrings of gay liberation through the catastrophe of AIDS, Jack remains devoted to Will. Troubled by his subversive longings, Jack sees a psychiatrist and dates a few women, while also pursuing short-lived liaisons with other men. But their friendship is complicated: Jack is also in love with Will. Jack even introduces Will to the woman he will marry. Coworkers at a cultural journal, they soon become good friends. Jack Holmes and Will Wright arrive in New York in the calm before the storm of the 1960s. ![]()
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