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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Toss and Whirl and Pass is a compelling novel. Ruff quickly draws readers into the complex and intentionally fractured, at times hallucinatory narrative. One begins to genuinely feel for Yale Battle, wanting him to pull his life together. His clear-eyed insights into his “Tina” addiction prove that he is not totally lost to the drug, and the suggestions of hope offered toward the end of the novel hint at the possibility of redemption. no reviews | add a review
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From highly acclaimed author Shawn Stewart Ruff comes a fearless new novel set in New York City two weeks into the nightmare of the World Trade Center s destruction. For Ivy-educated, HIV-positive African-American poet Yale Battle, the will to go on since the death of his lover -- a famed dancer and choreographer and casualty of AIDS -- is never more acutely tested than when the city he loves is engulfed in grief. Wandering the memories of Yale's old life, and deep in the terror of a drug and sex odyssey that lands him in jail, Toss and Whirl and Pass ponders the nature of eternal love and celebrates the city of dreams. No library descriptions found. |
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