num_pages: 230
description: Porcelain is an examination of a young man's crime of passion. Triply scorned - as an Asian, a homosexual, and now a murderer - nineteen-year-old John Lee has confessed to shooting his lover in a public lavatory in London. Porcelain dissects the crime through a prism of conflicting voices: newscasts, flashbacks, and John's recollections to a prison psychiatrist. A Language of Their Own is a lyrical and dramatic meditation on the nature of desire and sexuality as four men - three Asian and one white - come together and drift apart in a series of interconnecting stories.
language: English
title: Porcelain & A Language of Their Own
titlecomplete: Porcelain & A Language of Their Own
genres: Plays, LGBT, Read For School
ratings_count: 73
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Drama
publisher: Grove Press