| Equal parts bildungsroman and purported literary artifact, The Age of Cities is -really about the age of innocence. A manuscript is discovered inside a hollowed-out home economics textbook: it is the story of a young man from a small town who comes to the big city at the height of the Cold War. His accidental discovery of a gay -subcultureculminating in a feverish, dreamlike initiationpushes him irrevocably toward crisis. The Age of Cities is about discovery, loss, and the contemporary ',closet' where stories lie hidden from view. |
