"Epidemic Proportions"

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"Epidemic Proportions"

Washington Post (12/28/89), P. C4
Grant, Richard

Abstract: "Triangulation," by Jack Stephens, is a first novel about a thirtysomething AIDS researcher who lives in Baltimore, writes novelist Richard Grant. The title comes from the triangleNazis used to brand homosexuals, as well as from the method surveyors use to fix a position by referring to known reference points. The many characters, Grant notes, all suffer from the same epidemic--not AIDS, but an inability to connect. The book'srefrain is: "Don't get any on you." The novel lacks drama, Grantwrites, and becomes a play of motion and form. Stephens shows a fondness for mathematics and arcana, but seriously undermines thereader's trust with anachronisms and medical inexactitude. Ultimately, Grant writes, Stephens uses AIDS merely as a leitmotif, picking it up and dropping it now and again. Grant concludes that the book ends with an ugly twist that made him want to wash his hands.

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