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- Your Nostalgia is Killing Me
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- 2022
- Published by: Red Hen Press
summary
- AN HONEST LOOK into the AIDS pandemic and toxic masculinity in America
- THE GRACE PALEY PRIZE FOR SHORT FICTION AWARD WINNER - selected by Dr. Amina Gautier
- AWARD WINNING AUTHOR John Weir is the recipient of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Debut Fiction
- FOR FANS OF the book The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai, the play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, and the musicals Rent and Tick, Tick... Boom by Jonathan Larson
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.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. 1-4
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 5-6
- Dedication
- pp. 7-8
- AIDS Nostalgia
- Neorealism at the Infiniplex
- pp. 17-25
- American Graffiti
- pp. 26-53
- Scenes from a Marriage
- pp. 54-70
- Katherine Mansfield
- pp. 93-138
- Political Funerals
- pp. 139-140
- Long-Term Survivors
- The Origin of the Milky Way
- pp. 145-158
- Humoresque
- pp. 159-179
- Your Nostalgia Is Killing Me
- pp. 180-204
- Imitation of Life
- It Gets Worse
- pp. 209-223
- Biographical Note
- p. 224
Additional Information
ISBN
9781636280301
Related ISBN(s)
9781636280295
MARC Record
OCLC
1343243043
Pages
224
Launched on MUSE
2022-09-04
Language
English
Open Access
No