Source: The Burning Plain
Role: a well-written book
Contact: Michael Nava, SF novelists
Notes: another protagonist, Henry Rios, who is literate, makes literary reference throughout the novel, specifically to Dante, Emily Dickenson, and others. I think the title of the novel also refers to Dante's Inferno. The protag. is also a gay, Mexican, LA lawyer, how much more contemporary California is that! The plot involves the LAPD and the Hollywood studio system, and makes many pop culture references w/o being self-conscience. The the first 1/3 of the book involves some mild gay sex scenes, but the on the last 10 pages a young, gay boy is brutally raped. I could not teach this book because of that.
Action: I read the whole novel in two, obsessed days and nights!
Leads: I'd still like to read one more of Nava's books to see if there may be less sex, more suitable to an academic analysis.
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Interesting to know.
...please where can I buy a unicorn?
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