More info on Dark Reflections

I found this on the Walmart site. The new novel sounds interesting:

Dark Reflections is the story of Arnold Hawley, a gay African American
poet who has lived in New York City's Lower East Side for most of his
adult life. Divided into three sections, the book traces Hawley's life
in reverse order. In part one, "The Prize," we see him at fifty winning
the Alfred Proctor Award for his sixth book of poems. He is at the
height of his personal and modest literary success. Eighteen year later,
he publishes another--much less successful--book. Cramped by loneliness
and fear of old age, he has a nervous breakdown when his Aunt dies in
Cleveland and he is unable to make the funeral. The middle section,
"Vashti in the Dark," takes us back to 1974, the time of Hawley's
unlikely marriage to Judy Haindel. When it emerges that his new wife is
deeply disturbed, the emotional and physical consequences are
catastrophic. Hawley's third book comes as close to recording the
impressions of this time as he dares. And the final section, "The Book
of Pictures," recalls Hawley's college days at Brown and Boston. Free at
last from his strong-willed Aunt Bea, he experiences, his first sexual
fixation--a black delivery boy, Slake Bowman. Hawley follows Slake to
the home of his white photographer partner, Joe Salieri, both of whom
make it clear he'd be welcome for an afternoon of wild sex. Dark
Reflections is a beautifully crafted novel that moves back and forth in
time, creating an extraordinary meditation on deformed social attitudes,
loneliness, and the startling invigoration of life's small triumphs.



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