A Smile in His Lifetime

A Smile in His Lifetime by HANSEN, Joseph. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780030560644.

Whit Miller was a struggling writer and a solidly married man. Then came success - and destruction. Of his marriage.And almost of himself. For Whit was gay and now there was nothing to repress who he was and what he a man to love, among so many men to love. And in an odyssey of desperate need and obsessive desire he journeyed to the heights and to the depths of the heart - and of the flesh...A Smile in His Lifetime"THE SEXUAL DRIVE OF A HUMAN BEING TREATED AS THE TORNADO IT REALLY RESEMBLES. YOU WONT BE ABLE TO STOP READING...A NOVELTHAT SHOULDNT BE MISSED." -The Reader, Los Angeles"A man confused, tormented and overwhelmed by his erotic disposition...essentially homosexual, though occasionally heterosexual, and sometimes just sexual... good, direct, penetrating...evokes the poignant peculiarities of L.A. in a way that compares well with Christopher Isherwood and Joan Didion." -Leonard Michaels, in New West"Courageous. Always on the mark in confronting even the darkest feelings." -New York Times Book Review"Impressive for its unrelenting honesty...often shattering." -Philadelphia Inquirer