cover image Under Heat

Under Heat

Michael David Brown. Plume Books, $8.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-452-26372-7

Dean, who is gay and newly sober, goes home to rural Kentucky for a vacation but finds his return to the family dynamic anything but restorative. This ``dark and aching'' story, PW noted, ``leaves an aftertaste of fatalism that may well suffuse the lives of homosexual men, but the lack of grounding in specific detail robs Brown's first novel of narrative and emotional force.'' (Jan.)