Just Friends: A Love Story

An extraordinary accomplishment, Just Friends, A Love Story is a unique novel in the grand tradition of Proust, Mann, Genet and Kosinski. However, it is Donald Motier has created a moving contemporary psychological/philosophical novel that on one hand is an unconventional love story and on the other a history of the changing mores of the last third of the 20th century. Just Friends, A Love Story is the tale of Daniel and Joel who meet in 1966 while Daniel is a student at a small Pennsylvania college and Joel a boy who lives in the college town. Although their love for each other is intense and they soon become inseparable, it remains innocent and chaste. However, because of their age difference, they soon attract the attention of suspicious minds and are cruelly separated despite both their protestations that they are