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Jesse and Ray, a longtime Brooklyn couple, are quietly adjusting to Jesse's rapid decline in health. It's 1992, and there's little that medicine can do for the AIDS-stricken Jesse. After the successful completion of his last ad campaign, he leaves his firm and settles in at home. In the meantime, the two men have taken on Ray's teenage nephew and 9-year-old niece, and Ray, a music producer, has begun a sexual affair with a straight married truck driver. All seems to be going smoothly, the transitions gradual, the pain modulated by love, until Jesse's vengeful mother arrives to exert her will over Jesse's last months. Onyx is one of Picano's best books, a consistently interesting story recounted in flexible, detailed prose, flowering now and then into luminous descriptive passages that rival the work of the best American novelists. --Regina Marler Read More

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  • Product Description

    Three men. Two gay, one straight. Two searching for meaning in the face of loss, one searching for the heart of masculinity. What awakens between them will change their lives forever. Picano, the author of such epic-scaled novels as Like People in History and The Book of Lies, narrows his focus here to six months in the life of Ray Henriques, a successful Manhattan record producer whose life is thrown dramatically out of balance. Based loosely on events the author himself experienced before relocating from New York to Los Angeles in the mid 1990s, the narrative unearths a sometimes jolting examination of how loss can awaken dormant desires and postponed dreams. Endings lead to beginnings, appearances do not match reality, and love can harden hearts as surely as it can expand them. Onyx is a gripping, suspenseful, romantic, and erotic journey to the heart of expectation and beyond into the sometimes harsh, often warm light of reality.

  • 1555837417
  • 9781555837419
  • Felice Picano
  • 1 May 2002
  • Alyson Books
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 344
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