Not a fanthis is a rambling kind of exploration of lust and repression and isolation. this one gets a bombastic side eye from me
Queer (1985)
Others: Negative Set in Mexico City during the early fifities, the story follows William Lee from bar to bar in the American expatriate scene as he pursues a young man named Allerton.
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- 150 pages
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