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THE WHITE ROAD is not only a love story in the grand tradition, it's a novel about the 'fifties. The settings are East Hampton, New York, and Paris. This sweeping saga follows four young characters through the decade from their college days to their days as American expatriates in Paris. Their lives are touched by history -- the Cold War, McCarthyism, the Rosenberg executions, the Algerian War -- but it is their complicated emotional bond that is at the center of this compelling tale, and especially the love affair between Billy Roamer and Amelia Parker. Billy is a working-class young man from the North Fork of Long Island who goes off to Columbia College on a scholarship. There he meets Brandon Wyler, a young Oscar Wilde -- gay and clever. Amelia Parker is the notorious daughter of Brandon's East Hampton neighbors. Of herself she says,