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“OUT OF THE SHADOWS,” FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW:
“. . . [Odets’s] writing is poignant and achingly beautiful—so much so, in fact, that I occasionally had to put the book down to avoid weeping on the subway. . . .The exquisitely told story of Odets’s longtime friend and lover, who fled a trailer he shared with a brutally homophobic family and built a life bursting with meaning and intimacy, is the most compelling story of gay self-actualization I’ve ever encountered. Odets and his close friends and lovers should serve as an inspiration to many gay men, as well as a reminder of what might be the book’s most enduring message. ‘All the diverse forms that true gay life has improvised,’ Odets writes, ‘constitute a special universe that should not be relinquished to meet the expectations of a pathological society.’”
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