They're going to love you / They are going to love you
Howrey, Meg,
They're going to love you / They are going to love you Meg Howrey. - 274 pages ; 24 cm.
Carlisle Martin dreams of becoming a professional ballet dancer like her mother Isabel. She only gets to see her father Robert, and his brilliant but troubled partner James, for a few precious weeks a year when she visits their enchanted apartment in Greenwich Village. James educates her in all that he holds dear in life: literature, music, and most of all, dance. As the years go by, Carlisle is desperate to be asked to stay permanently, even as AIDS brings devastation to their community. Instead, a passionate love affair creates a rift between them, with devastating consequences that reverberate for decades to come. Nineteen years later, Carlisle receives a phone call which unravels the fateful events of her life . . . They're Going to Love You is a gripping and gorgeously written novel of heartbreaking intensity. With psychological precision and a masterfully revealed secret at its heart, it asks what it takes to be an artist, and the price of forgiveness, of ambition, and of love.
9781526655813 9781526655820 1526655829
Gay men--Fiction.
Parent and child--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
New York (N.Y.)--History--20th century--Fiction.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
813.6
They're going to love you / They are going to love you Meg Howrey. - 274 pages ; 24 cm.
Carlisle Martin dreams of becoming a professional ballet dancer like her mother Isabel. She only gets to see her father Robert, and his brilliant but troubled partner James, for a few precious weeks a year when she visits their enchanted apartment in Greenwich Village. James educates her in all that he holds dear in life: literature, music, and most of all, dance. As the years go by, Carlisle is desperate to be asked to stay permanently, even as AIDS brings devastation to their community. Instead, a passionate love affair creates a rift between them, with devastating consequences that reverberate for decades to come. Nineteen years later, Carlisle receives a phone call which unravels the fateful events of her life . . . They're Going to Love You is a gripping and gorgeously written novel of heartbreaking intensity. With psychological precision and a masterfully revealed secret at its heart, it asks what it takes to be an artist, and the price of forgiveness, of ambition, and of love.
9781526655813 9781526655820 1526655829
Gay men--Fiction.
Parent and child--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
New York (N.Y.)--History--20th century--Fiction.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
813.6