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Shy : a novel

Title
Shy : a novel / by Kevin Killian.
Author
Killian, Kevin
Publication
  • Freedom, California : Crossing Press, [1989]
  • ©1989

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Book/TextUse in library PS3561.I375 S47 1989Off-site

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Description
276 pages; 21 cm
Summary
Shy is the story of Harry Van. It's 1974, summertime, Long island. Three demanding people are about enter Harry's life and change it for good. "Gunther Fielder" is not his name; he's on the run, from his wealthy Manhattan society life, from a misguided engagement, from a terrible crime. Paula Theale is the best friend Harry Van has ever made, and they've known each other three weeks. Together they're ready to follow their favorite rock star's command. Kevin Killian is writing his first novel. Kevin can't forget the life or death of his great love Mark McAndrew, but when Harry Van comes into his life he gets shyer and shyer by the minute. These hungry people converge from difference corners of sexuality during one explosive summer. Dickensian in scope, Shy take Harry Van from a series of squalid foster homes to the strangest summer of his life. He doesn't know much, but he wants to know love's total expression.
Subject
  • Gay men
  • Gay men > New York (State) > Long Island > Fiction
  • Long Island (N.Y.) > Fiction
Genre/Form
  • Gay fiction.
  • Fiction.
ISBN
  • 0895943484
  • 9780895943484
LCCN
89000484
OCLC
  • ocm19125883
  • 19125883
  • SCSB-1905545
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library