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Letters from the Closet
Ten Years of Correspondence That Changed My Life
- 256 pages
- English
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- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
An honest and poignant look into the deeply intimate yet platonic relationship between a gay English teacher and his young female protégée—each seeking connection and acceptance—as reflected by the decade of letters they exchanged.
It was an improbable relationship from the start—a high school English teacher, still in the closet, and his best student. From the confines—and protection—of his closet, Amy’s teacher wrote these letters, letters that were read, cherished, answered, and then locked away for years. Now Amy looks back at the decade of intimate letters that preceded her teacher’s untimely death, collects the shards left by their clumsy, sometimes violent attempts to unmask each other, and counts again the cost of knowing and being known. Every writer needs a room of his own, but for some people, at certain times, and in certain circumstances, the best you can do is a closet.
Timely and relevant, this is a love story of the most contemporary kind, a rare glimpse into an intimate relationship between teacher and student—a relationship whose effects are still being felt decades later. It’s raw and honest and moving, a poignant commentary on the values that unite us all.
It was an improbable relationship from the start—a high school English teacher, still in the closet, and his best student. From the confines—and protection—of his closet, Amy’s teacher wrote these letters, letters that were read, cherished, answered, and then locked away for years. Now Amy looks back at the decade of intimate letters that preceded her teacher’s untimely death, collects the shards left by their clumsy, sometimes violent attempts to unmask each other, and counts again the cost of knowing and being known. Every writer needs a room of his own, but for some people, at certain times, and in certain circumstances, the best you can do is a closet.
Timely and relevant, this is a love story of the most contemporary kind, a rare glimpse into an intimate relationship between teacher and student—a relationship whose effects are still being felt decades later. It’s raw and honest and moving, a poignant commentary on the values that unite us all.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- Chapter 1: Introduction: Boy Meets Girl
- Chapter 2: Skeletons in the Closet: Secrets That Dance
- Chapter 3: Fibber McGee’s Closet: Stuff Comes Tumbling Out
- Chapter 4: The Spear Closet: Where the Weapons Are Stored
- Chapter 5: Rain in the Store-Closet: What It Takes to Write
- Chapter 6: The Closet Novelist: Taking an Inventory of Love and Loss
- Chapter 7: The Blue Closet: Dream Sequences and Postmortem Visits
- Chapter 8: The Closet of God: Room for One
- Chapter 9: Your Coat in My Closet: The Gift I Did Not Choose
- Chapter 10: Emerson’s Last Closet: The Things I Still Don’t Know
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- About Amy Hollingsworth
- Copyright
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