Loving women
a novel of the fifties
by Pete Hamill · 1989
In 1953, Michael heads south to become a man in the U.S. Navy. He is naive about the sadistic terrors of the service, the bigotry of the south, and thrashes through with frustration and despair until he meets Eden Santana.
Man-woman relationshipsNineteen fiftiesFictionNew York Times reviewed