eBooks - Drama - Drama - Felice Picano - Onyx
Onyx eBook
by Felice Picano
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Onyx Summary
| What is the measure of a man’s life? Success? Love? Money? Friendship? Music producer Ray Henriques has them all and more, but lately it’s not enough. But Ray is not the only one on a quest for deeper understanding of life’s extraordinary landscape. For Jesse, Ray’s lover of twelve years, it is a quest accelerated by his imminent death from AIDS. And for young married father of three Mike Tedesco, it is a search for the heart of masculinity. The sexual exploration that begins when Ray and Mike meet awakens a restlessness in both men that alters their future paths resoundingly. Meanwhile, Picano takes a graphic yet compassionate approach to detailing Jesse's decline, and some fine comic moments arise when Adele, Jesse's horrible mother, takes center stage. Against an ever-shifting backdrop of eccentric characters including Ray's teenage nephew and 9-year-old niece, Ray and Mike embark on a physical relationship that forces both men to confront their notions of love, sex and masculinity and their conclusions are riddled with more questions than answers. Striking in its bold depictions of both pleasure and pain, this novel is more introspective than previous Picano books, taking a fresh angle on familiar themes of love and death, and manifesting greater insight in its musings about living and loss during the traumatic years of the AIDS epidemic. Marked by gracefully shifting points of view, deft use of wry humor, unexpected revelation, and moments of stunning loveliness, Onyx is a multifaceted exploration of inner lives, motivation, love, and the sometimes hollow center beneath a polished surface. |
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