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Tangled Up In Blue: A Novel (Stonewall Inn Editions (Paperback)) Paperback – October 15, 1990

by Larry Duplechan (Author)
3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
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Tangled Up in Blue is love story of three people bound together by ties of love, passion, and friendship until a crisis threatens to destroy them all.

Maggie Sullivan's accidental discovery that her husband Daniel has taken the AIDS test leads to a devastating confession: Before he met and married Maggie, Daniel had been lovers with Crockett, a gay man who is now Maggie's closest friend.

Reeling from a sense of betrayal and unable to deal with the husband she loves intensely and the friend she cares for most, Maggie faces a crisis that threatens to destroy both marriage and friendship, testing her and her husband's love for each other and for their closest friend.

"The breezy, hedonistic mood of the typically Californian characters in this arresting, heartwrenching novel is shattered by the AIDS virus... This moving, inspirational story commands attention whatever one's sexual orientation." - Publishers Weekly


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    October 15, 1990
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    5.5 x 0.62 x 8.5 inches
  5. ISBN-10
    0312026501
  6. ISBN-13
    978-0312051679
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LARRY DUPLECHAN's novels include Blackbird (considered the first modern Black “coming-out” novel) and the Lambda Literary Award-winning Got ‘til it’s Gone. His hobbies include singing, playing the ukulele, reading show business biographies, and pursuing his ongoing quest to forestall the physical aging process and build truly outstanding pecs. He lives in Los Angeles with his husband and a 17-pound Chartreux cat named Mr. Blue.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0312051670
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ St. Martin's Griffin; 1st paperback ed edition (October 15, 1990)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0312026501
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0312051679
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.62 x 8.5 inches
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    3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

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LARRY DUPLECHAN is the author of five novels, including Blackbird (considered the first modern Black “coming-out” novel) and the Lambda Literary Award-winning Got ‘til it’s Gone; and the movie memoir Movies That Made Me Gay. His hobbies include singing, playing the ukulele, reading show business biographies, and pursuing his ongoing quest to forestall the physical aging process and build truly outstanding pecs. He lives in Los Angeles with his husband of 47 years and a Chartreux cat named Mr. Blue.

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Araph Keita
5.0 out of 5 stars The Masterpiece
Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2008
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All of Duplechan's work are creative and thought provoking, and this one follows that same mode. This work is about friendship. A seemingly straight actor, who is a lawyer, becomes friend with a gay man, who has a crush on him. Fate brought them together as the actor decides to do a play, and the director encourages the actors to spend time together, learning each other. This friendship becomes a sexual relationship. After the sex ends, the friendship survives, and the gay lover of the past also becomes friends with the woman, the actor marries. Revelations about the actor's past comes to light while his wife is pregnant, and she must find a way to process all of this and decide what to do about her marriage. It is fascinating how Duplechan puts characters in interesting positions, where decisions are dificult.
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Jim Provenzano
4.0 out of 5 stars LA, the '80s, AIDS and love
Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2019
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Having finished publishing my own recent contribution to the '1980s AIDS gay fiction' genre, and my related re-reading of many classics of the era, I almost forgot this intimate gem from Duplechan. Set in the mid-1980s Los Angeles, and published in 1989, the author includes a few specific '80s references without falling into clichés; fitness centers in all their Spandex, where Maggie works, the LA acting scene, where her handsome actor husband Daniel can't get much work due to his striking resemblance to Christopher Reeve (he moves to a legal career) and their spritely gay friend Crockett, a word processor and aspiring author.

All seems happy until the news of Rock Hudson's illness splashes across tabloid and news headlines. Crockett's begun to get sick, and while his two friends are concerned, it also opens up the romantic past between Daniel and Crockett, sprung from their work in a local production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I found the years-back romance between the two men to be quite sexy and sweet.

When Daniel reveals his past with Crockett, Maggie is understandably upset. The novel explores bisexuality and the panicked fear of those days with sensitivity and a lyrical style. While many novels by gay men about these times forebode gloom and death, some of them immersed in it without later perspective (due to the demise of many of the genre's authors), 'Tangled..' offers a glint of hope and love amid the growing pandemic.
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Jim Pippin
2.0 out of 5 stars I'd skip this one
Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2021
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Seemed to take about half the book to get going. I found it hard to connect or find any sympathy with the characters, they seemed under developed. I found I was skipping paragraphs and pages just to get on into it.
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Andrew Adam Caldwell
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2018
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I adore this writer, have all of his books.
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K. TAYLOR
5.0 out of 5 stars TANGLED UP IN BLUE
Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2000
THIS WAS A WARM AND WONDERFULLY TOLD STORY OF LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP. I DIDN'T KNOW WHO TO CRY FOR ARE WHO TO CHEER FOR ALL THE CHARACTERS WERE PEOPLE YOU WOULD WANT TO KNOW AND CARE ABOUT. MR. DUPLECHAN IS A TALENTED STORY TELLER.
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