Joseph and the Old Man

This is the first "gay fiction" I've read in awhile: so much of the genre is writer-workshop prose, a sort of sameness that doesn't inspire. But this book worked for me, if nothing else than as a nice gay romance novel. It gives a particularly good treatment of intergenerational relationships, I think, something that's rare in writing, gay or straight. And the life described, an endless, slow parade of friends on Fire Island; well, it's very appealing, sad to think that it might no longer exist. I hope to visit Fire Island on my big roadtrip this summer, see what it's really like.
I like the style of most of the novel, a sort of sensitive gay male Hemmingway. Simple, upfront prose presenting the daily life of the lovers. The book compelled me enough that I stayed up all night to read it instead of sleeping, called a friend it reminded me of and raved about it.