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Name: Sex with strangers
Author: Geoffrey Rees

Thomas Hobart heads west to the University of Chicago, leaving behind the quiet expectations of his small town. On the train he meets Dennis, a railway conductor, and they begin a yearly pattern of intense but emotionally distant encounters at a downtown hotel. Thomas adopts the mantra “love without lust, lust without love” and hides this affair from his new circle of friends, including Michael and Jane. When Dennis tries to pull Thomas into his everyday life, their arrangement collapses. A subsequent journey to New York introduces Stuart, a charismatic painter whose world enthralls Thomas and challenges the limits of his romantic and sexual identity. Plunging into Stuart’s artistic milieu, Thomas confronts the upheavals of his own life and grapples with the integration of desire, affection, and responsibility.

First publish date: 1993

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction/Gay Fiction

Authors: Geoffrey Rees

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