TY  - BOOK
AU  - Solomon,Andrew
TI  - A stone boat: a novel 
SN  - 9781476710914 (pbk.)
AV  - PS3569.O589 S76 2013
U1  - 813/.54 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Scribner
KW  - Mothers and sons
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Cancer
KW  - Patients
KW  - Americans
KW  - England
KW  - Gay men
KW  - London (England)
N1  - Previously published in 1994 by Plume
N2  - "Harry, an internationally celebrated young concert pianist, travels to Paris to confront his glamorous and formidable mother about her dismay at his homosexuality. Before he can give voice to his hurt and anger, he discovers she is terminally ill. In an attempt to escape his feelings of guilt and despair over the prospect of her death, he embarks on several intense affairs--one with a longtime female friend--that force him to question his capacity for love, and finally to rediscover it"--P. [4] of cover
ER  -