<div><b><b>The witty and intimate story of a young man&rsquo;s search for fulfillment during the cultural and sexual revolution of 1970s New York City</b></b><BR>Danny Slocum is a gay man in New York at a time of unprecedented sexual freedom. And yet Danny hasn&rsquo;t had a satisfying encounter with another man in years, a plight that drives him to sex therapy. Virgil, Danny&rsquo;s therapist, suggests that Danny work with another man, Joe, who has a similar problem, in the hopes that they can work out their anxieties together. The arrangement brings memories of Danny&rsquo;s bygone relationships bubbling to the surface as he searches his past for where exactly things went wrong, coming to the realization that perhaps what he craves, above all else, is to be whole.<BR>Part novel and part memoir, <i>The Confessions of Danny Slocum</i> is a heartfelt, deeply relatable look at sex, love, happiness, and their painful reverse.</div>

The Confessions of Danny Slocum

<div><b>Three powerful profiles of men and women whose lives were changed forever by the AIDS epidemic</b><BR>&ldquo;Some of my reasons for wanting to write about AIDS were altruistic, others selfish. AIDS was decimating the community around me; there was a need to bear witness. AIDS had turned me and others like me into walking time bombs; there was a need to strike back, not just wait to die. What I didn't fully appreciate then, however, was the extent to which I was trying to bargain with AIDS: If I wrote about it, maybe I wouldn't get it. My article ran in May 1985. But AIDS didn't keep its part of the bargain.&rdquo; <i>&mdash;</i>George Whitmore, <i>The New York Times Magazine</i><BR>Published at the height of the AIDS epidemic, <i>Someone Was Here </i>brings together three stories, reported between 1985 and 1987, about the human cost of the disease.Whitmore writes of Jim Sharp, a man in New York infected with AIDS, and Edward Dunn, one of the many people in Jim&rsquo;s support network, who volunteers with the Gay Men&rsquo;s Health Crisis organization in the city. Whitmore also profiles a mother, Nellie, who drives to San Francisco to bring her troubled son, Mike, home to Colorado where he will succumb to AIDS. Finally, Whitmore tells of the doctors and nurses working on the AIDS team in a South Bronx hospital, struggling to treat patients afflicted with an illness they don&rsquo;t yet fully understand.<BR>Expanded from reporting that originally appeared in the<i> New York Times Magazine</i>,<i> Someone Was Here </i>is a tragic and deeply felt look at a generation traumatized by AIDS, published just one year before George Whitmore&rsquo;s own death from the disease.</div>

Someone Was Here

<div><b>George Whitmore&rsquo;s acclaimed and affecting coming-of-age novel about a boy searching for his identity in the wake of a terrible accident</b><BR>When a car crash took one of his legs at age twelve, it also robbed Craig of his last hope for a steady childhood. Living in a Nebraska town with his abusive, alcoholic father and strong-willed mother, Craig is delighted when, in the middle of his recuperation, his uncle Wayne returns home, discharged from service in the navy. At times Wayne is like a surrogate father to Craig, helping him with his rehabilitation and igniting his imagination with tales of adventure sailing around the world. But with Wayne&rsquo;s nightly calls to a man known as &ldquo;the Chief,&rdquo; it becomes clear to Craig that his uncle is still very much a mystery.<BR>Beautifully written and utterly heartrending, <i>Nebraska </i>is a poignant story about a boy&rsquo;s maturation into manhood, and about the vividly drawn family members that surround him throughout his youth in the doldrums of rural life.</div>

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Books By George Whitmore (3 Books)

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Someone Was Here

Nebraska

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