Waiting on a Friend: The dazzling debut of ghosts and queer resistance set in 1980s New York - Couverture souple

Adler, Natalie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 152943906X ISBN 13 : 9781529439069

Editeur : riverrun, 2026

Synopsis

The summer of 1984, New York's East Village. Young men across the city are dying of a new, mystery disease known as AIDS. And Renata can see their ghosts...

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Natalie Adler is an editor at Lux magazine. She was a 2022-23 Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellow at the Center for Fiction. She has an MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College and a PhD in comparative literature from Brown University. She is from New Jersey and lives in New York City.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

East Village, summer of 1984. Renata is a young dyke-about-town who happens to have the ability to see ghosts, which has been happening more and more frequently as her friends have started dying of what has recently been named AIDS.



So, when her best friend Mark dies, she assumes she'll see him again. There's no way Mark wouldn't give her a chance to say goodbye, would he? But to her disappointment - and increasingly, her concern - Mark doesn't appear.



Renata has other problems, too. A mysterious, police-like force has begun ridding their East Village neighborhood of anything abnormal or inexplicable. At first, she's sure they're scam artists, but it becomes clear they're actually trapping ghosts as part of a city-wide gentrification plot to make downtown safe for Reaganites.



Told with humour and pathos, Waiting on a Friend is a genre-bending retelling of Queer history that manages to be both heartbreaking and healing.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: riverrun
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 152943906X
• ISBN 13: 9781529439069
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Van Ditmar Boeken, VDB Sales; sales@vanditmar.nl; ; Hondiuslaan 44; Utrecht; 3528 AB; Pays-Bas