I've a Feeling We're Not in Kansas Anymore: Tales from Gay Manhattan
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| Rating | : | 4.97 (839 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312402910 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 193 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Ethan Mordden investigates the stories that gay life in the city engenders -- the fantasies, the secrets, the fears, the joys. . Ultimately all the stories are about love, and Mordden is a master at painting love with a delicate brush
His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker and numerous other magazines and journals. Ethan Mordden is the author of dozens of books, both fiction and nonfiction. He lives in Manhattan.
"Gay Microcosm" according to Brett Benner. I loved 'How Long Has This Been Going On' I thought it was a fantastic collection of characters and an accurate and revealing look at the gay lifestyle. The same can be said for this I guess, but in the much more specific microcosm of mainly fire island.Threaded together by a narrator named Bud, the book becomes collected stories from his friends . The "Buddies" Cycle Begins With A Quiet Bang A Customer Ethan Mordden's first entry in his decade-long series could easily have stood on its own as simply a collection of short stories, some of which share the same characters and continue situations. Fortunately for us, it is just the beginning, a somewhat modest introdction to his world. He lightheartedly tells of friendship and growing up and painful. "This book will hook you" according to Todd E. Keeler. While the title might seem a little trite, it wasn't when the book was published and the vignettes told within are certain to hook the reader into reading and following the exploits of the members of this crew of buddies as they live their lives on the Manhattan-Fire Island axis of the 1970s. I caught myself laughing out loud on the train reading
"We have traded tales, my buddies and I; of affairs, encounters, secrets, fears, self-promotion-of fantasies that we make real in the telling." In this, the first volume in Ethan Mordden's acclaimed trilogy on Manhattan gay life, he introduces a small group of friends-Dennis Savage, Little Kiwi, Carlos, and the narrator, Bud-and chronicles their exploration of the new world of gay life and the new people they are in the process of becoming.In a voice at once ironic, wistful, witty, and profound, Mordden investigates his suspicion that all of gay life is stories and that, somehow or other, all these stories are about love.