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<div><div>When Ben Duncan chronicled his evolution from a Depression-era orphan in Alabama to an Oxford educated writer and commentator in England in 1962, he was unable to tell his whole story. He revealed much--a harrowing childhood, his tenacity and drive for self-definition and self-creation. But he also hid crucial parts of his life that would remain masked for fifty years. As a gay man living in Great Britain at a time when homosexuality was aggressively prosecuted in the courts, Duncan was forced to hide an essential feature of his life and identity.<br></div><div>Now, in <i>The Same Language</i>, Duncan tells his story anew, weaving throughout his original memoir italic passages that reveal the true circumstances of his life--dire, humorous, and angry by turns--and honor the kinds of love, sexuality, and support that animated and defined his existence.<br><br>Shifting from past to present and back again, Duncan tells of growing up in a string of foster homes, joining the military, earning a scholarship to Oxford, and negotiating the Kafkaesque bureaucracy of English immigration officials determined to keep him out. But here also is Duncan&#8217;s account of his evolving sexuality, the many masks he was forced to contrive for survival and acceptance, and a vivid rendering of the underground world of gay life at every level of academia, politics, class, and social life in 50s and 60s-era Britain.<br><br>An alien in his adopted country, an alien by nature of his sexual orientation, Duncan&#8217;s story is a touching chronicle of one man&#8217;s search for home--in a new country, with a man he loves, and within himself--a life no longer masked, but his own.</div></div>

<div><div><b>Ben Duncan</b> is a writer and broadcaster based in England. He is author of the novel <i>Little Friends</i> and of numerous articles that have appeared in <i>The Guardian, New Society, Punch, The Spectator</i>, and <i>The Times Literary Supplement.</i><b>John Howard</b> teaches in the Department of American Studies at King&#8217;s College, University of London. He is author of the widely-acclaimed study <i>Men Like That: A Southern Queer History</i> and editor of <i>Carryin&#8217; On in the Lesbian and Gay South</i> and two volumes of postwar gay literature. <i></i></div></div>