White Fur: A love story of equal parts grit and glamour
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Although Elise Perez and Jamey Hyde are next-door neighbors in New Haven, they come from different worlds. Elise grew up in public housing without a father and didn't graduate from high school. Jamey is a junior at Yale, heir to a private investment bank fortune. Nevertheless, the attraction is instant, and what starts out as sexual obsession turns into something greater. The couple moves to Manhattan in search of a new life, wandering through Newport mansions and East Village dives, WASP-establishment yacht clubs, and the grimy blocks below Canal Street, fighting the forces determined to keep them apart. A beautifully written novel that captures the ferocity of young love. --
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Elise and Jamey meet in New Haven in 1986. It doesn't matter whether theirs is ‘love at first sight' or not. The bond swiftly developed between them defies such a mundane expression. They move to New York, fighting every prejudice and courageous hostility imaginable. As we follow a year of their relationship, we witness how her strength and determination unite with his naivety and moments of weakness, forming one of the most memorable couples in Contemporary Literature.
Jardine Libaire has created a beautiful, edgy, tender dance in the streets of New York during the delirious decade of the 80s. Politics, social unrest, racial issues, the nightmare of AIDS, the chasm dividing the residents of Tribeca and Upper East Side and the homeless veterans begging for spare change, forgotten by everyone. Two young people are struggling for the right to love each other in peace. When you recognise that Love is the only force that can help stay afloat in the ocean of unadulterated shit, then hope is not as unattainable as we might think.
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