Dark Reflections

A writer of seemingly limitless range. - Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours.
This Stonewall Book Award-winning novel traces the life and unrealised dreams of Arnold Hawley, a gay African American poet. The story opens with Hawley’s lonely old age, traveling backward in time to his arrival in New York City of the 1950s. A meditation on isolation and sexual repression, the book also offers an acerbic look at the literary world and the frustrations intrinsic to artistic life. AUTHOR: Author, professor, and literary critic Samuel R. Delany has received both Nebula and Hugo awards. In addition to his bestselling science-fiction novel Dhalgren, he has written literary fiction, criticism, and essays on sexuality and society.