The End of Being Known: A Memoir (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies)

A poetic look at the hazards and delights of sex, desire, friendship, and the quandary of these worlds when they collide. In a series of five autobiographical essays, Klein forgoes trying to answer the riddle of sexual desire in favor of engaging it and its manifestations in various contexts: incest, falling in love with a friend, being a twin, and inhabiting the world of anonymous sex. But it is not a typical collection of essays; it draws on poetic and fragmentary literary devices to create an overall effect that belongs as much to the world of language as to the world of narrative.