When he gets home, it's half past two in the morning, and Rose is hurt. He then goes to a gay bar and meets another man named Frank they go to Frank's flat and have sex. Owen calls a gay sex phone-line and starts sobbing. Rose says to Philip that she needs more time to ruminate. Later, Philip runs into his parents and tells them he's broken up with Eliot. Owen calls a gay hotline, then hangs up and calls Alex Melchor, who tells him to call someone else, and then Philip, hanging up before they can talk. Subsequently, Philip does not return his calls. A few days later, he meets Rob in a bar and they return to the boy's dorm room where they have sex. He then gets really drunk out on the town to forget. He was then sent to a psych ward.Įliot doesn't return Philip's calls when Jerene meets Philip for a drink, she admits there is not much that can be done. In the library, Jerene reads an article about a child who emulates cranes as this was the only thing he would see out of his window from his cot, and his parents weren't about. His mother is tersely averse his father says it is fine, though he starts weeping as soon as the young man has left. Philip eventually comes out to his parents. Outside, Eliot admits to being unsure about their relationship nevertheless they return to Eliot's, where he teaches Philip how to shave properly. Philip meets Eliot's foster parents for dinner, then they go to a gay bar where Philip meets his old acquaintance Alex Kamarov. Later, he goes to his parents' flat to look at Derek's books.
Philip asks Eliot to introduce him to Derek and Geoffrey. Owen calls Alex Melchor and finds out it was a wrong number. Finally, he recalls going to a gay pornographic cinema when he was seventeen. Philip goes on to remember the way he would masturbate a lot and how he tried to ask girls out - and they refused. Philip and Eliot then talk about their experiences with men. There is then an account of Jerene's childhood up to her coming out to her parents and being spurned by them. Philip and Eliot then wake up Philip seems keen on flatmate Jerene's research on lost languages. Back to the parents, Owen gets back to his apartment, soaked through. He thinks back to how they met through Sally.
Philip and Eliot are in bed Philip gets up to do the dishes. Owen then goes to a gay pornographic cinema, where a man leaves him his number. One Sunday she takes a walk, goes to an automat and bumps into her husband. Rose visits her son, who lives in a shabby neighborhood he says he likes to go to the East Village. Rose and Owen find out that their apartment block is to become a co-op. The Lost Language of Cranes was the second novel by David Leavitt, and deals primarily with the difficulties a young gay man, Philip Benjamin, has in coming out to his parents, Rose and Owen, and with their subsequent reactions. A British TV film of the novel was made in 1991. The Lost Language of Cranes is a novel by David Leavitt, first published in 1986.
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