![]() ![]() ![]() George wakes in the night to find a note from Kenny, who has left. Invigorated by “ the stunning baptism of the surf“, George invites Kenny back to his house, and attempts to seduce him, but stops himself. ![]() They head to the beach, stripping naked and swimming in the night-time surf. ![]() He visits the seaside bar where he first met Jim, and re-encounters Kenny, who flirts drunkenly with him. He goes to dinner with his friend Charlotte, a fellow British expatriate who has been abandoned by her lover and adult son, and laments that she and George could never be a real couple. After a gym workout, he goes to a hospital to visit Doris, a former lover of Jim’s who is dying of cancer, then has a brief encounter with a young hustler at a liquor store. He has a long conversation with his student Kenny, a heterosexual ex-Marine who hero-worships George and insists on calling him “Sir”. Alienated from Jim’s family and resentful towards his neighbours who tolerate rather than accept his sexuality, George moves through his day in an existential funk, teaching a literature class at his college, using a Aldous Huxley novel to expound his views about society’s fear of outsiders. The novel follows a day in the life of George, a 58 year-old college professor, who is devastated by the sudden death of his long-term boyfriend Jim. In which I review A Single Man, Christopher Isherwood’s Californian-set 1964 novel about a middle-aged gay Englishman grieving after the sudden death of his long-term boyfriend. ![]()
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