Equal affections
Subtitle: a novel
By: David Leavitt.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Weidenfeld & Nicholson; Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Family -- Fiction; Mothers -- Fiction
Description: Family matriarch Louise Cooper, mother of gay siblings April and Danny, suffers one medical malady after another, while Nat, her computer scientist husband, enjoys a longterm affair on the side. As Louise's condition deteriorates, tensions mount and family members attempt to define and justify their conflicting feelings.