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Condition: Good Cover lightly discoloured and scuffed, ink inscription on pre-title page and pages beginning to brown, but good binding tight and good example of this autobiography by a key literary science-fiction writer. Content: "When The New York Times Book Review hailed Samuel R Delany as 'the most interesting author of science fiction writing in English today,' it confirmed what a legion of readers already knew. Now this major talent goes back to the beginnings of his career to recreate his coming of age as a writer and a man. His is a history of a youth in search of his vocation; of a black gay man on the prowl for sexual experience; of a complex yet touching marriage to Marilyn Hacker, a young white poet; of emotional and creative breakdown and healing; and of a time and place - the East Village in the '60s - peopled with such diverse talents as W H Auden and Bob Dylan. With a style of rare elegance, at once sharply focused and beautifully detached, Samuel R Delany has written one of the most candid and engrossing memoirs of this or any other time." (from the cover) Background / Biography: Wikipedia entry Reviews: "The most open, shocking, fascinating literary memoir of our time" Gregory Benford "A stunner... The most courageous, revealing and compulsively readable autobiography I have ever encountered." Barry N Malzberg "Absorbing... a moving exploration of the creative process and the drives of the artist" The Oregonian "Fascinating... an anecdotal, bittersweet reminiscence... entertaining" Science Fiction Chronicle "A brave madness... a crazed act of courage, the best autobiography to emerge from America's subconscious" Norman Spinrad (from the cover) Clicking on advertiser links on this site may allow these companies to gather and use information about your visit to this and other websites to provide you with advertisements about goods and services presumed to be of interest to you. |
Quote from this book "In the fifties - and it was a fifties model of homosexuality that controlled all that was done, by both we ourselves and the law that persecuted us - homosexuality was a solitary perversion. Before and above all, it isolated you. That there was a 'gay bar society' was, itself, conceived of in terms of that isolation, and was marginal to it. Didn't we all know that those gay men who took part in that society were all but asexual - those men who, certainly, had given up on bodily sex itself, reduced to passionate but unrequited friendships with impossible love objects that, nine out of ten times, would never put out. The abandonment of sex itself was the price, everyone was sure, that any sense of the social somehow exacted from homosexuals. It was tragic - but it was true." Secondhand booksellers |
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