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A taut, elegiac, and engrossing read, The Imagined Life follows Steven Mills, a man in a struggling marriage who becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth about the father who vanished from his life when he was only twelve. Driving up the coast of California, Steven seeks out his fatherâs friends, family, and former colleagues, and is transported back to his 1980s childhood: his parentsâ legendary pool parties, black-and-white films on the backyard projector, his fatherâs male friends in the cabana house.
With every revelation his father becomes more difficult to recognise, and, with every insight, Steven must confront truths about his own life. In cinematic prose, Andrew Porter explores the full nexus of male relationships: fathers and sons, husbands and lovers set achingly against the US AIDS epidemic and the homophobia of the 1980s and masterfully weaves a tale of trauma, generational secrets, forbidden love, and shame.
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A taut, elegiac, and engrossing read, The Imagined Life follows Steven Mills, a man in a struggling marriage who becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth about the father who vanished from his life when he was only twelve. Driving up the coast of California, Steven seeks out his fatherâs friends, family, and former colleagues, and is transported back to his 1980s childhood: his parentsâ legendary pool parties, black-and-white films on the backyard projector, his fatherâs male friends in the cabana house.
With every revelation his father becomes more difficult to recognise, and, with every insight, Steven must confront truths about his own life. In cinematic prose, Andrew Porter explores the full nexus of male relationships: fathers and sons, husbands and lovers set achingly against the US AIDS epidemic and the homophobia of the 1980s and masterfully weaves a tale of trauma, generational secrets, forbidden love, and shame.
