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A Day and a Night at the Baths

A Day and a Night at the Baths

Michael Rumaker

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Spuyten Duyvil
Año de edición:
2010
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Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9780982807408
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The dates are important to mention in order to put the open sensuality in the novel in perspective., that is, pre-AIDS, when male-male sexuality was being liberated from its centuries-long subterranean hiddenness into a visibility if only, in this instance, of the twilit and claustrophobic “freedom” of a bath house.     (M.R. from the intro)

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