I Am Not Myself These Days: A Memoir - Couverture souple

Kilmer-Purcell, Josh

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0060817321 ISBN 13 : 9780060817329

Editeur : Harper Perennial, 2006

Synopsis

I am Not Myself These Days In this darkly funny and brilliantly written noiresque memoir, a young New York City advertising art director by day/glittering nightclub drag queen and amateur beauty pageant contestant by night finds himself struggling to keep his high heels grounded during a doomed romance with his penthouse-living, crack-addicted, male escort boyfriend.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

“I laughed. I cried. I laughed again. I AM NOT MYSELF THESE DAYS is tawdry and brilliantly witty.” (Simon Doonan)

“...absolutely hilarious and heartbreaking and heartfelt.” (Armistead Maupin, author of Tales of the City)

“...a delicate narrative that spares not an ounce of pain but never once aims for contrition.” (Kirkus Reviews)

“...impossible to look away.” (Publishers Weekly)

“...Outrageously vulgar, unexpectedly moving, and one of the most sincere love stories I’ve read in a long time. ” (BookSense review by Audrey Brockhaus, Schuler Books & Music Okemos)

Recipient of Elle‘s Readers’ Prize 2006 (Elle)

Book Sense Pick for March 2006 (Book Sense)

“...the book goes deeper, ultimately telling what is a painfully dysfunctional love story...” (Out Magazine)

“I AM NOT MYSELF THESE DAYS is like the memoir equivalent of a hooker with a heart of gold.” (Zink Magazine)

“...this life-altering (and ultimately heartbreaking) love story crawls deep into your veins.” (Zink Magazine)

Quatrième de couverture :

I Am Not Myself These Days follows a glittering journey through Manhattan's dark underbelly -- a shocking and surreal world where alter egos reign and subsist (barely) on dark wit and chemicals...a tragic romantic comedy where one begins by rooting for the survival of the relationship and ends by hoping someone simply survives. Kilmer-Purcell is a terrifically gifted new literary voice who straddles the divide between absurdity and normalcy, and stitches them together with surprising humor and lonely poignancy. As Booklist raved "as tart and funny as a Noel Coward play, for Kilmer-Purcell is especially good at dialogue, and, as in Coward's best plays, under the comedy lies the sad truth that even at our best, we are all weak, fallible fools. Again and again in this rich, adventure-filled book, Kilmer-Purcell illustrates the truth of Blake's proverb, 'The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.'"

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harper Perennial
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0060817321
• ISBN 13: 9780060817329
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336