![]() ![]() They might object to the fact that there's far more fighting than fucking and the lack of political consciousness. ![]() ![]() Some readers may object to the depiction of sex (very low key, implied rather than explicit), the fact that they never say "I love you" or talk much about the relationship at all (in short, typical men of that time and pretty much any time). He makes it clear that the problems they face are imposed by a homophobic society, not from their fundamentally flawed relationship. ![]() But the author doesn't betray his characters by having them breakup or kill themselves or sink into a seedy gay underworld because (as SO many novels of the time implied) that's just what the gays do, they can't be happy. It's not a 100% happy ending (many reviewers have described it as "bittersweet") due to the realities of the time period. But I want to put it right up front that this is not a downer of a novel with the obligatory unhappy ending like most of the gay-themed novels of my youth. Written in 1979 by a former USN officer, it tells the story of fighter pilots Fred Trusteau and Jack Hardigan, battling the Japanese across the Pacific and coming to terms with their feelings for each other, and the equally hazardous undertaking of making a life together in postwar America. ![]()
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