FREE: The Beauty of Men by Andrew Holleran

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Hardback book with dustjacket. Book looks brand new.


The Beauty of Men is a brilliant, passionate, lyrical story of a man ashamed to be mourning the loss of his own youth as so many around him die young. Holleran follows Lark, the main character, on a series of trips to a Florida nursing home to care for his mother and on excursions to a local boat ramp, the gym, and the baths--all the while introducing a remarkable cast of characters both in the present and in Lark's memory of his life in Manhattan.

Lark himself may well be one of the most extraordinary characters in modern fiction. Nearing fifty, in relatively good health, he is a man obsessed with the beauty of youth and his own mortality; with the condition of his mother and the state of the nation; with his receding hairline and the loss of so many friends from AIDS; and, above all, with a neighbor named Becker, a stunningly virile and handsome gay man he meets at the boat ramp, takes home to bed, and who now haunts his days and dreams.

A universal tale of loneliness, aging, and the obsessive desires of the human heart. The Beauty of Men is both moving and full of dark humor, bleak but erotic. It is an astoundingly powerful and important work of fiction.