Will Aitken, Author Delta $19 (288p) ISBN 978-0-385-29872-8
Set in the Indiana city of its title in the early 1960s, this debut novel attempts to explore the implications of the narrator's burgeoning homosexuality. Fourteen-year-old Jared McCaverty both profits and suffers from precocity; he sees the...
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Will Aitken, Author Simon & Schuster $19.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-74707-7
Daniel Kenning, the hero of this unsatisfying novel, is a successful architect with a happy marriage. Then the unexpected death of a colleague thrusts him suddenly--and inexplicably--into despair. After consulting a psychotherapist, Daniel slowly...
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Will Aitken. Univ. of Regina (IPS, U.S. dist.; UTP, Canadian dist.), $19.95 (210p) ISBN 978-0-88977-521-3
Aitken’s inspiring autobiographical odyssey, which centers on Sophocles’s tragedy Antigone as translated by poet Anne Carson, is a testimony to the power of art. Carson invited Aitken (Glass Rain) to attend rehearsals in Luxembourg for a production...
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