Safe As Houses: A Novel

by Alex Jeffers

Hardcover, 1995

Status

Available

Call number

PS3560.E33 S24

Tags

fiction, gay

Genres

Collection

Your library

Publication

Faber & Faber (1995), Edition: Other Printing, Hardcover, 364 pages

Description

Allen Pasztory, the hearing son of two deaf parents, struggles for a sense of self and family with a view to his Hungarian immigrant heritage, chronic illness, his lover Jeremy, Jeremy's son Toby, and his own nephew, Kit.

User reviews

LibraryThing member sumariotter
I enjoyed reading this very much. It's a story about a man with AIDS, but it is not a tragedy. It's a story about an alternative family told in dreamy poetic fashion. It's a gay romance story of an idyllic partnership and family life. The story could be pure Naiad Press but it is distinguished by
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 beautiful writing.
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Subjects

Children of parents with disabilities Fiction
Domestic fiction
Gay men Fiction

Language

English

Physical description

364 p.; 9.1 inches

ISBN

0571198600 / 9780571198603

Local notes

OCLC = 183
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0 local

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