
Queer Street
Rise and Fall of an American Culture, 1947-1985
James McCourt(Author)
WW Norton & Co (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 17. January 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
592 pages
978-0-393-32640-6 (ISBN)
Description
A fierce critical intelligence animates every page of Queer Street. Its sentences are dizzying divagations. The postwar generation of queer New York has found a sophisticated bard singing 'the elders' history' (The New York Times). James McCourt's seminal Queer Street has proven unrivaled in its ability to capture the voices of a mad, bygone era. Beginning with the influx of liberated veterans into downtown New York and barreling through four decades of crisis and triumph up to the era of the floodtide of AIDS, McCourt positions his own exhilarating experience against the whirlwind history of the era. The result is a commanding and persuasive interlocking of personal, intellectual, and social history that will be read, dissected, and honored as the masterpiece it is for decades to come. A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2003; a Lambda Award finalist.
Reviews / Votes
"A heroically imaginative account of gay metropolitan culture, an elegy and an apologia for a generation." - New York Times Book ReviewMore details
Edition
Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 39 mm
Weight
839 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-32640-6 (9780393326406)
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E-Book
05/2013
W. W. Norton & Company
€16.49
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Person
James McCourt is the author of Mawrdew Czgowchwz, Time Remaining, Delancey's Way, Now Voyagers: The Night Sea Journey and Queer Street. He has contributed to the Yale Review, The New Yorker, and the Paris Review. He lives in New York City and Washington, D.C.