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What is Privates about?

**KIRKUS REVIEW** A middle-aged gay writer escaping a broken relationship tries to relive his past in this slow-moving fox trot down memory lane from the author of *The Ladies of Levittown* (1980) and *Mr. Jack and the Greenstalks* (1970). Fifty-year-old Willy Howards is a novelist of some repute who lives on Long Island with his lover of 27 years, art curator Victor Friedman. The two of them are famous among their friends for the stability and longevity of their relationship--even Willy's sister considers them ""married""--but as the novel opens, in 1980, Victor has decided he wants a separation. Crushed, Willy flies out to San Francisco to visit Sammy Tolan, an old Army love (but not lover) whom he last saw in 1953. The narrative then flashes back to Texas, 1951, where Willy (a sensitive, literary Jewish kid out of Brooklyn and City College) and Sammy (a confident Texan escaping a backward family and a small, dusty town) meet at Fort Hood as fellow cannon fodder for the Korean War, soon discover their ""sisterhood,"" and spend a great deal of self-dramatizing time talking about it, mainly in cloying Tennessee Williams-speak (they call each other ""Blanche"" and ""Stella for star,

Author

Horowitz, Gene, 1930-

Publisher

New York: St. Martin's Press

Published

1986

Language

EN

ISBN

9780312014964

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities