Lovers

the long version

**From Paperback Swap:** Expanded from the Christopher Street Magazine article Anatomy of a Love Affair. — What happens when men fall in love? Meet Philip and Neil. Two lovers. — Love between two men is just like any other love--different. Neil was a struggling fiction writer and Philip, younger, boyishly attractive, was an editor for a photography magazine when they met at a writing workshop in New York. Philip was involved with a beautiful woman; Neil was a sexual adventurer--smoky, headstrong, dangerous, used to getting what he wanted. In separate interviews with Philip and Neil, Michael uses photographs they had taken to evoke responses that mirror their shifting emotions and capture their story in a unique way. From the sexual fiasco of their first night together to their honeymoon in Cannes, through their infidelities and stormy attempts to share their passion with others, and finally, to their parting and emergence as transformed individuals, Lovers portrays the evolution of a romance.