| Description |
1 online resource (275 pages) |
| Summary |
When troubled twenty-one-year-old Seamus Blake meets the enigmatic Jimmy (just arrived in San Francisco by bicycle from his hometown in Buffalo, New York), he feels his life may finally be taking off. But the ensuing romance proves short-lived as Jimmy dies of an AIDS-related illness. The grieving Seamus is obliged to keep a promise: "Take me back the way I came," Jimmy had asked. And so Seamus sets out by bicycle on a picaresque journey with the ashes, hoping to bring them back to Buffalo. He meets truck drivers, waitresses, Native Americans, college kids, farmers, ranchers, and Marines - each one giving him a new perspective on his own life and on Jimmy's death. When he falls in man whose mother has also recently died, Seamus's grief and his story become universal and redemptive. This book depicts San Francisco in the 1980s and a crossing into the American West that is dreamy, mythic, and mystifying.--publisher's description |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Gay men -- Fiction
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FICTION -- General.
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Gay men
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012009961 |
| ISBN |
9780299289737 |
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0299289737 |
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9781299192294 |
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1299192297 |
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