Title: A pretentious attempt at an "epic"
Product review: Picano, who wrote a very good mystery years ago called THE LURE,attempts a GONE WITH THE WIND style sweeping saga but falls short. The main fault is the shallowness of the characters - they're all gorgeous, talented, rich, etc. Alistar, the fey one, is a Wall Street genius at age nine and an equal wizard on the baseball diamond. Please. He and Roger manage to be the Forrest Gumps of the Stonewall set; they turn up at all the major historical events of the last forty years, but Picano's handling of these episodes is sketchy at best. Anyone calling this a "masterpiece of gay literature" or a masterpiece of any sort of literature needs to spend more time in the library and less on the beach. Oh well. At least Picano didn't resort to present tense. That deserves one star.
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