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When a photographer witnesses a violent crime in New York's Lower East Side, he hunts down the missing camera that may hold answers Eugene is a midwesterner living in New York, an erstwhile Catholic and not-quite-openly-gay photographer. When a Holy Week pageant in the gritty Lower East Side erupts into a riot, he is sucked into the city's shadowy depths. While photographing the parade, Eugene has his eye on a handsome teen, but when things turn violent the youth is stabbed and Eugene's camera is stolen. To find the camera and its precious film, which may provide evidence, Eugene has to become acquainted with a seedy, unfamiliar world, and hold on to his sanity in the process. In Such Dark Places is a thrilling debut novel of awakening and obsession.
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"Caldwell writes a deceptively simple prose, without decoration, metaphor, or simile. In Such Dark Places is so satisfying and so completely realized that I don't want to brand Caldwell by comparing him to established novelists or to call him, as we often do first novelists, 'promising.' He is here, well worth reading now and watching for in the future."
Doris Grumbach
"In Such Dark Places is an unusually impressive first novel . . . that can be read in one sitting but will linger in one's mind long afterwards."
Chicago Daily News
"This is a subtle and powerful novel about the relation of a lapsed Catholic to his lost faith and his homosexual nature, set amidst scenes of lust, violence, and death in the New York slums. I found all its characters lovable because they are created with so much truth. The good priest is as true as the bad boys."
Chicago Daily News