Letters from the closet
Subtitle: ten years of correspondence that changed my life
By: Amy Hollingsworth
Edition: 1st Howard books hardcover ed.
Publisher: Howard Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781451666779; 9781476715292; 9781451666786
Subjects: Correspondence; Teacher-student relationships; Biography; Gay men; Relations with heterosexual women; Relations with gay men; American Authors
Description: "Timely and relevant, this is a love story of the most contemporary kind. It's a rare and beautiful glimpse into an intimate, but platonic relationship between a gay English teacher and his young female protégée - each seeking connection and acceptance. Now the student-turned-author looks back at the decade of letters that preceded her teacher's untimely death. She collects the shards left by their clumsy, sometimes violent attempts to unmask each other and counts the cost of knowing and being known. ..."--Back cover.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : boy meets girl; title: Skeletons in the closet : secrets that dance; title: Fibber McGee's closet : stuff comes tumbling out; title: The spear closet : where the weapons are stored; title: Rain in the store-closet : what it takes to write; title: The closet novelist : taking an inventory of love and loss; title: The blue closet : dream sequences and postmortem visits; title: The closet of God : room for one; title: Your coat in my closet : the gift I did not choose; title: Emerson's last closet : the things I still don't know; title: Epilogue.