false 665461 4 In 1974, The Front Runner was published, a novel of love and loss that became a best-loved classic about gay life. Now, twenty years later, comes the sequel - a story of passion, and victory pulled from defeat. <P>After his young athlete lover is assassinated on the Olympic track in Montreal, coach Harlan Brown is forced to enter the race of his life. To survive the hate and violence which threaten his chosen family - Betsy, valiant lesbian mother, Vince, angry activist seeking revenge, Chino, Vietnam vet with a wounded heart, and the secret child of Billy Sive, The Front Runner. <P>In time, a second chance at love comes. Vince Matti, 25, a runner who was Billy's best friend, has harbored an unrequited passion for his ex-Marine coach. Handsome, volatile, and passionate, Vince challenges Harlan's stoic and lonely heart in unimagined ways. Harlan must race with the shadow of the past - that memory of the brief idyll with Billy - and reach a present where love is enduring and real. <P>Meanwhile, Harlan's ordeal with bias and bloodshed is not over. Snipers often work in pairs, and the Montreal shooter evidently had a cohort who escaped arrest. This mysterious stalker moves implacably into Harlan's world. And yet another stalker is moving into gay life - a disease that has no name. As events move to the climax, Harlan runs the most desperate race of his life - risking everything to win the victory torn from his hands at Montreal. 1114317 1994 Harlan's Race: A Novel total:48|5:13|4:18|3:13|2:4|1:0| 48 184 63 10 4 1 true false Wed Sep 10 04:51:57 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 30 13:25:04 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 10 04:51:57 -0700 2008
While I love, love, love the dynamic between Harlan and all the other characters (he's a conservative, older gay man r...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 06 07:26:17 -0800 2008 Thu Oct 30 14:56:18 -0700 2008 Thu Nov 06 07:26:17 -0800 2008
Without Billy Sive, though, this book start...more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Jun 10 09:37:17 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 09:38:11 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Thu Sep 13 13:07:37 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 13 13:11:16 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 0 true false Sun Jun 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 08 13:31:23 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 08 13:49:21 -0700 2008 Okay, well this book has its funny bits (mostly unintentionally funny I think) and it's sort of exciting / thriller (when it can be taken seriously which isn't often) but the best passages are the parts about gay pride and standing up against the hetero establishment.

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