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The Mad Man

By Samuel R. Delany

Book information

Publisher
Inc., Masquerade Books
Year
1994
ISBN
1563331934, 9781563331930
LCC
PS3554.E437 M33 1994
Google Books ID
YIdaAAAAMAAJ
Open Library ID
OL873221M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
643 kB (658576 bytes)
Edition
1st Richar
Pages
\0
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

For his thesis, graduate student John Marr researches the life and work of the brilliant Timothy Hasler--a philosopher whose career was cut tragically short over a decade earlier. Marr encounters numerous obstacles as other researchers turn up evidence of Hasler's personal life that is deemed simply too unpleasant and disillusioning for the rarified air of academe. On another front, Marr finds himself increasingly drawn toward more shocking, depraved sexual entanglements with the homeless men of his neighborhood, until it begins to seem that Hasler's death might hold some key to his own life as a gay man in the age of AIDS. As John Marr learns more about the enigma that was Timothy Hasler, his own increasing sexual debasement leads him to a point where his and the philosopher's lives collide violently...

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