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Book 1995

Flesh and blood

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Publisher
Hamish Hamilton
Language
English
Published
1995
  • Domestic fiction
  • Family
  • Fiction
  • Families
  • Immigrants
  • Gay men
  • LGBTQ novels
  • Lambda Literary Awards

The story of Constantine Stassos, a Greek immigrant. He marries an Italian girl, they have three children and he becomes a rich construction boss. After which it's downhill all the way: drugs, sex and the generation gap. The parents divorce, a son becomes a homosexual, the daughter has an illegitimate black baby. By the author of A Home at the End of the World.