Edmund White: Jack Holmes and His Friend [2012] paperback ELEAR She has an MA in

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Edmund White: Jack Holmes and His Friend [2012] paperback ELEAR She has an MA inMany straight men and gay men are best friends, but if the phenomenon is an urban commonplace it has never been treated before as the focus of a major novel. Jack Holmes is in love, but the man he loves never shares his bed. The other men Jack sleeps with never last long and he dallies with several women. He sees a shrink and practices extreme discretion about his gay adventures since the book begins in the 1960s, before gay liberation, and ends after