Our hero(ine), a highly intelligent boy, has little education and a love for his sister's clothes. His dad is appalled. His psychiatrist can't make contact. And he's sad he can't have the operation he would like. So he dresses for the part. And then Frank falls in love with him... Freak? No, he's a character in an astonishing book, a figure who typifies, exaggerates and pinpoints the solitude of all mankind.