{"product_id":"a-friend-of-dorothys-hardcover","title":"A Friend of Dorothy's - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRichard Willett\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"We have all the time in the world, my sweet beautiful man.\" \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was the ending that scared off even gay editors back in the day. The last chapter of playwright Richard Willett's controversial lost novel of the eighties is an intimate victory dance of overt gay male sexuality at a time when not just silence = death, but for many sex = death. Now, perhaps, readers will be more open to celebrating it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's 1986 in New York City and 27-year-old Eric Summerfield knows that \"yuppies\" are supposed to be obnoxious, easily dismissed, but he envies the clarity of their delusions, their seeming ability to keep mortality at bay. He yearns, in fact, to be one of them. The catch: He's no Wall Street insider, but instead the underpaid employee of a Canadian chain bookstore in Midtown Manhattan, a Canuck himself, and gay, and AIDS suddenly seems to be everywhere, including in the body of his flamboyant friend and coworker Dale, who inexplicably singles out a reluctant Eric to be his chief caregiver. It's an experience that will change both of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoving back and forth across time and place from youth in the 1960s and '70s-Eric's in Vancouver, Dale's on a farm in Kansas-to the pressure cooker of New York in the gay eighties, A Friend of Dorothy's is also a timeless, universal coming of age novel, in which the crucible of illness compels one young man to reach for something greater.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePR A I S E FOR A Friend of Dorothy's\u003cp\u003e\"Nothing can have prepared you for the wit and insight, the eccentricity and inspiring optimism with which this consistently surprising young writer depicts a year at the heart of his generation's greatest calamity.\" -\u003cstrong\u003e- Joseph Pintauro, author of \u003cem\u003eCold Hands \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eRaft of the Medusa\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"There is a knowingness, a sense of timing, a compassion and forgiveness under all the action, character to character. What Richard Willett has-in abundance-is love for the people he is chronicling and, by recording, saving.\" -- \u003cstrong\u003eAllan Gurganus, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Practical Heart\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePlays Well with Others\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eOldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The writing is poignant, realistic and fine; the reader is pierced and instantly seduced by the characters' appeal and immediacy.\" -\u003cstrong\u003e- Harlan Greene, author of \u003cem\u003eThe German Officer's Boy\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWhat the Dead Remember\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eWhy We Never Danced the Charleston\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Willett's short stories have been published in \u003cem\u003eChristopher Street\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHawaii Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAmerican Writing\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eKaramu\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eOxalis\u003c\/em\u003e, among others, as well as short-listed for New American Library's \u003cem\u003eMen on Men: Best New Gay Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e, edited by David Bergman. His short play about AIDS \u003cem\u003eBoys Will Be Boys\u003c\/em\u003e was included in the anthology \u003cem\u003eArt \u0026amp; Understanding: Literature from the First Twenty Years of A\u0026amp;U\u003c\/em\u003e, and he is also the author of the plays \u003cem\u003eTriptych\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRandom Harvest\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Flid Show\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTiny Bubbles\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e9\/10\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eA Terminal Event\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eGrief at High Tide\u003c\/em\u003e, presented off-off-Broadway and at theaters across the country. Honors include an Edward F. Albee Foundation Fellowship and a Tennessee Williams Scholarship, designation as a finalist for the Dramatists Guild National Fellows Program and the Sundance Labs, and listing twice in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Nicholl Top 50. He lives in West Hollywood, California.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVisit richardwillettwriter.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 15, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52580262609203,"sku":"9798992339802","price":37.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/JkUNuNYX9f9798992339802.webp?v=1761508390","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/a-friend-of-dorothys-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}