"A writer of seemingly limitless range." -- Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours .
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The narrative then retreats to the 1970s to recount Hawley\'s impulsive marriage to a homeless woman.
The tale unfolds in three non-chronological parts, starting in the twenty-first century with Hawley\'s lonely old age and the failure of his latest volume of poetry.
This Stonewall Book Award-winning novel traces the life and unrealized dreams of Arnold Hawley, a gay African American poet. "A writer of seemingly limitless range." -- Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours