![]() ![]() (His melancholy excursions include cruising a video arcade and a boat ramp in nearby Gainesville, places he’s visited for the past couple of decades.) Earl is a retired accountant and widower, and their common interests-books, music, “fine furniture,” picking blueberries-have bound them through the years as they remember friends of theirs who have died from AIDS and the narrator cared for his ailing parents. The 60-something unnamed narrator strives to hold onto a long, lingering friendship with Earl, who’s 20 years older, and reflects with bittersweetness on losses, past loves, and the indulgences of desire and lust. ![]() The geographical and emotional landscape of contemporary rural Florida is at the core of this majestic and wistful rumination on ageing, loneliness, and mortality from Holleran ( Dancer from the Dance). ![]()
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