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Lädt ... About Ed (2023. Auflage)von Robert Glück (Autor)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Please don't write about dreams. ( ) Some beautiful writing throughout that requires close attention as timing jumps frequently, almost on purpose because that's how the mind works in reflection. Intrusive, perhaps. But some knockout prose, particularly on grief, that made me reflective. Found this passage stunning: "Mourning is the fear of losing Ed combined with the fact of losing Ed. I can't work it out and the problem shackles me. I see why doctors suggest travel, because I can't find a different place inside-intolerable rigidity. I console myself: I never have to accept his death. Do I write to remain in contact?—when I'm finished will he be truly buried?" Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
A moving story about love, AIDS, grief, and memory by one of the most adventurous writers to come out of San Francisco's LGBTQ+ scene. Bob Glück met Ed Aulerich-Sugai in 1970. Ed was an aspiring artist; Bob wanted to write. They were young men in San Francisco at the high tide of sexual liberation and soon, and for eight years, they were lovers, after which they were friends. Ed was an explorer in the realms of sex. He was beautiful, fragile, exasperating, serious, unassuaged. In 1994 he died of HIV. His dream notebooks became a touchstone for this book, which Glück has been working on for some two decades, while also making his name as a proponent of New Narrative writing and as one of America's most unusual, venturesome, and lyrical authors. About Ed is about Ed, who remains, as our dead do, both familiar and unknowable, faraway and close. It is about Bob too. The book is a hybrid, at once fiction and fact, like memory, and it takes in many things through tales of political activism and domestic comedy and fury to questions of art and love and experiences of longing and horror. The book also shifts in register, from the delicate to the analytic, to funny and explicit and heartbroken. It begins in the San Francisco of the early 1980s, when Ed and Bob have been broken up for a while. aIds is spreading, but Ed has yet to receive his diagnosis. It follows him backward through his life with Bob in the 1970s and forward through the harrowing particulars of death. It holds on to him and explores his art. It ends in his dreams. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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