David B. Hopes
Auteur de A Sense of the Morning: Inspiring Reflections on Nature and Discovery
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Œuvres de David B. Hopes
Bird Songs of the Mesozoic: A Day Hiker's Guide to the Nearby Wild (The World As Home) (2005) 11 exemplaires
A Childhood in the Milky Way: Becoming a Poet in Ohio (Ohio History and Culture) (1999) 8 exemplaires
Bird Somgs of the Mesozoic 1 exemplaire
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- male
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- Œuvres
- 7
- Aussi par
- 3
- Membres
- 58
- Popularité
- #284,346
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 13
The thing about historical novels, ones set in a past deep enough to have lost its currency, is that they might as well be fantasy novels. On the other hand, historical novels that take place when one's parents were getting married and having their first children are in a peculiar place between contemporary and stuffy-old-fashioned nostalgia fests.
I went on this journey, to be sure, knowing where I was headed. The historical part wasn't that historical to my frame of reference; the queer part contained my frame of reference; so what was I doing here, exactly? Touristing a bygone age's homophobia, knowing it would end badly? Or listening to the gift of a story told by a person whose life was more firmly rooted in that time and place than mine? In the end, it's a matter of semantics, distinction without difference. I went to the Wyona River and I saw the Falls, felt the way it broke the people of its town into parts. Boys and girls led very separate lives when I was growing up, too, but the river being so exclusively (in the narrator, Alden's, mind) male rang me like a bell. The funny thing for me was seeing how open Vince, the coach's only child, was about his love for Glen...but only by the maleness of the Wyona.
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