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Description

1. 257 pages; 22 cm

Summary

1. "The story of a hidden life and the very recent history of gay love in America. Set in a declining textile town in North Carolina, Hide is the love story of Wendell Wilson, a taxidermist, and Frank Clifton, a veteran of World War II. They meet after the war, in a time when such love holds real danger. But, severing nearly all ties with the rest of the world, they carve out a home for themselves on the outskirts of town and for decades the routine of self-reliant domesticity--Wendell's cooking, Frank's care for a yard no one sees, and the vicarious drama of courtroom TV--seems to protect them. But when Wendell finds Frank lying motionless outside at the age of eighty-three, their carefully crafted life together begins to unravel. As Frank's physical strength deteriorates and his memory dissolves, Wendell struggles in vain to keep him healthy and to hold onto the man he once knew until, faced with giving care beyond his capacity, he must come to terms with the consequences of half a century in seclusion, the sacrifices they made for each other, and the different lives they might have lived--and most especially the impending, inexorable loss of the one they had"--

Subject

1. North Carolina
2. Marriage
3. North Carolina > Fiction
4. Gay couples
5. Gay men > Fiction
6. Fiction
7. Veterans
8. Taxidermists
9. Love in old age
10. Romance fiction

Genre/Form

1. Romance fiction.
2. Fiction.

Call number

1. JFD 16-1333

Author

1. Griffin, Matthew, 1984- author.

Title

1. Hide : a novel / Matthew Griffin.

Publisher

1. New York : Bloomsbury USA, 2016.

Copyright date

1. ©2016

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

LCCN

1. 2015022845

ISBN

1. 9781632863386 (alk. paper)
2. 1632863383 (alk. paper)
3. 9781632863393 (ePub)

Research call number

1. JFD 16-1333