Labour of Love Author:Doug Wilson Characters from Peter McGehee's two novels (Boys Like Us and Sweetheart ) return courtesy of Wilson, the author's lover, who picks up the story where McGehee left it when he died in 1991. The result, while clearly the work of a different hand, is a warmly observed work about a gay couple's bravery in the face of a messy and ... more »protracted death from AIDS.
Zero MacNoo, the narrator of the previous two books, is now the central character of a story set in Toronto, but this time the narrative voice belongs to his lover David, who, though he too has AIDS, nonetheless takes on the grim stewardship of Zero's death. Prominently featured in the story are "the Burmuda Triangle" (the lesbian menage a trois who live upstairs), Zero's difficult, alcoholic mother and a socialist transvestite named Searcy, whose high spirits and victory over fag-bashers give the story its lightest moments.« less