Whit Miller was a struggling writer and a solidly married man. Then came success - and destruction. Of his marriage. And almost of himself. For Whit was gay and now there was nothing to repress who he was and what he wanted: a man to love, among so many men to love. And in an odyssey of desperate need and obsessive desire he journeyed to the heights and to the depths of the heart - and of the flesh... A Smile in His Lifetime "THE SEXUAL DRIVE OF A HUMAN BEING TREATED AS THE TORNADO IT REALLY RESEMBLES. YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO STOP READING...A NOVELTHAT SHOULDN'T BE MISSED." -The Reader, Los Angeles "A man confused, tormented and overwhelmed by his erotic disposition...essentially homosexual, though occasionally heterosexual, and sometimes just sexual... good, direct, penetrating...evokes the poignant peculiarities of L.A. in a way that compares well with Christopher Isherwood and Joan Didion." -Leonard Michaels, in New West "Courageous. Always on the mark in confronting even the darkest feelings." -New York Times Book Review "Impressive for its unrelenting honesty...often shattering." -Philadelphia Inquirer
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Joseph Hansen (1923–2004) was an American author of mysteries. The son of a South Dakota shoemaker, he moved to a California citrus farm with his family in 1936. He began publishing poetry in the New Yorker in the 1950s, and joined the editorial teams of gay magazines ONE and Tangents in the 1960s. Using the pseudonyms Rose Brock and James Colton, Hansen published five novels and a collection of short stories before the appearance of Fadeout (1970), the first novel published under his own name. The book introduced street-smart insurance investigator Dave Brandstetter, a complex, openly gay hero who grew and changed over the series’s twelve novels. By the time Hansen concluded the series with A Country of Old Men (1990), Brandstetter was older, melancholy, and ready for retirement. The 1992 recipient of the Private Eye Writers of America’s Lifetime Achievement Award, Hansen published several more novels before his death in 2004. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. This profile may contain books from multiple authors of this name.
