Johnson, Fenton,

Scissors, paper, rock a novel / [electronic resource] : Fenton Johnson. - Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016 Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2016] - 1 online resource (1 PDF (xiii, 264 pages).) - Kentucky voices . - Kentucky voices. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Originally published: New York : Pocket Books, [1993]. Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.

Along with his siblings, Raphael Hardin left his childhood home in rural Kentucky. Grappling with an AIDS diagnosis, he returns to care for his dying father. Told from the perspectives of Raphael, his family, and their lifelong neighbor, Fenton Johnson's landmark novel reveals the blood struggles and binding loves of a broken family made whole.

9780813166575 0813166578


Mountain life--Fiction.
AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Fiction.
Gay men--Fiction.


Appalachian Region, Southern--Fiction.
Kentucky--Fiction.


Electronic books.
Electronic books.

PS3560.O3766 / S35 2016

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