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Overview
Porcelain is an examination of a young man's crime of passion. Triply scorned - as an Asian, a homosexual, and now a murderer - nineteen-year-old John Lee has confessed to shooting his lover in a public lavatory in London. Porcelain dissects the crime through a prism of conflicting voices: newscasts, flashbacks, and John's recollections to a prison psychiatrist. A Language of Their Own is a lyrical and dramatic meditation on the nature of desire and sexuality as four men - three Asian and one white - come together and drift apart in a series of interconnecting stories.
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- ISBN-13: 9780802135001
- ISBN-10: 0802135005
- Publisher: Grove Press
- Publish Date: April 1997
- Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.45 pounds
- Page Count: 230
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