Untold Decades: Seven Comedies of Gay Romance

by Robert Patrick

Book Overview

Untold Decades: Seven Comedies of Gay Romance This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312023073
• ISBN13: 9780312023072
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.

Customer Reviews

faint heart ne'er won fair laddie

And Patrick is never faint of heart. Witty, wise, deeply moving - usually all in the same 1 act play. And you get 7 plays here. My ex still hasn't given this volume back, and I hardly have the heart to ask for it, as I wish hir all the best, and this is the best... OK, I've changed my mind, either put out or give me one of my favorite books back you cur!

"Sex may be safe, but love never is."

So concludes a wisecracking AIDS recluse in the last of these hilarious and heartbreaking one-act plays. Each one covers a decade in the lives of American gay men, from the sophisticated closets of the 1920's through our grimmest hour in the 1980's. Patrick may see little progress toward liberation, whether political or personal. But each decade is etched specifically and urgently, by a master playwright. You'll shed many a tear over this one, half of them from laughter.