{"product_id":"fascination-memoirs-paperback","title":"Fascination: Memoirs - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKevin Killian\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAndrew Durbin\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA memoir of gay life in 1970s Long Island by one of the leading proponents of the New Narrative movement.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFascination\u003c\/i\u003e brings together an early memoir, \u003ci\u003eBedrooms Have Windows\u003c\/i\u003e (1989) and a previously unpublished prose work, \u003ci\u003eBachelors Get Lonely\u003c\/i\u003e, by the poet and novelist Kevin Killian, one of the founding members of the New Narrative movement. The two together depict the author's early years struggling to become a writer in the sexed-up, boozy, drug-ridden world of Long Island's North Shore in the 1970s. It concludes with \u003ci\u003eTriangles in the Sand\u003c\/i\u003e, a new, previously unpublished memoir of Killian's brief affair in the 1970s with the composer Arthur Russell. \u003ci\u003eFascination\u003c\/i\u003e offers a moving and often funny view of the loneliness and desire that defined gay life of that era--a time in which Richard Nixon's resignation intersected with David Bowie's \u003ci\u003eDiamond Dogs\u003c\/i\u003e--from one of the leading voices in experimental gay writing of the past thirty years. \"Move along the velvet rope,\" Killian writes in \u003ci\u003eBedrooms Have Windows\u003c\/i\u003e, \"run your shaky fingers past the lacquered Keith Haring graffito: 'You did not live in our time  Be Sorry '\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 11, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770411843872,"sku":"9781635900408","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/1e75c0bcc24d53b10aba072e2ea63fe5.webp?v=1780371117","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/fascination-memoirs-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}