A brilliantly achieved novel written in verse.
No more to say. They change. Unsleeping,
On the same bed they lie apart
(What terrifying miles), each keeping,
Unshared, his bitterness of heart,
The longing each feels for the other,
Their unburnt love. Perhaps another
Who knowsattempt by Phil to touch
His shivering friendIs it too much
To ask of him?could still unite them;
But obdurate now, he wont plead,
Demean his pride, reveal his need . . .
A hundred reasonswhy recite them?
Ed falls asleep at last, but Phil,
At two, at three, is wakeful still.
Set in the 1980s in the affluence and sunshine of Californias Silicon Valley, it is an exuberant and witty story of twenty-somethings looking for love, pleasure and the meaning of life.
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