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Title: Pass It By
Review: Poorly written, badly researched and apparently not even edited. A truly awful book about a fascinating place. Mr. Manso's feelings about the gay people in Provincetown is made abundantly clear, ad naseum. I wont rehash it here. Instead, he chooses to glamorize small time crooks, drug smugglers and adulterers as the heroes of his sordid little book. His chapters about Jay Critchley, a sort of mea culpa for the hatemongering that comes before and after, don't even begin to flesh out a human being, let alone a strong gay man. He manages to reduce the extraordinary down to the most common of stereotypes.Your best bet would be to get in your car, and head up Rt 6 to see for yourself. Since you're a visitor, it will only serve to drive Mr. Manso crazy. GOOD!
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