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Your Nostalgia is Killing Me /
"John Weir, author of The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket, a defining novel of 1980s New York in its response to the global AIDS crisis, has written a story collection that chronicles the long aftermath of epidemic death, as recorded in the tragicomic voice of a gay man who survived high s...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Pasadena, CA :
Red Hen Press,
[2022]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | "John Weir, author of The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket, a defining novel of 1980s New York in its response to the global AIDS crisis, has written a story collection that chronicles the long aftermath of epidemic death, as recorded in the tragicomic voice of a gay man who survived high school in the 1970s, the AIDS death of his best friend in the 1990s, and his complicated relationship with his mother, "a movie star without a movie to star in," whose life is winding to a close in a retirement community where she lives alone with her last dog."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 pages). |
| Awards: | "This book is the Winner of the 2019 Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction." |
| ISBN: | 9781636280301 |