Sketchtasy

Title
  1. Sketchtasy / Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore.
Published by
  1. Vancouver, BC : Arsenal Pulp Press, [2018]
  2. ©2018
Author
  1. Sycamore, Mattilda Bernstein

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Description
  1. 271 pages; 21 cm
Summary
  1. "Sketchtasy takes place in that late-night moment when everything comes together, and everything falls apart-it's an urgent, glittering, devastating novel about the perils of queer world-making in the mid-'90s. This is Boston in 1995, a city defined by a rabid fear of difference. Alexa, an incisive twenty-one-year-old queen, faces everyday brutality with determined nonchalance. Rejecting middle-class pretensions, she negotiates past and present traumas with a scathing critique of the world. Drawn to the ecstasy of drugged-out escapades, Alexa searches for nourishment in a gay culture bonded by clubs and conformity, willful apathy, and the specter of AIDS. Is there any hope for communal care? Sketchtasy brings 1990s gay culture startlingly back to life, as Alexa and her friends grapple with the impact of growing up at a time when desire and death are intertwined. With an intoxicating voice and unruly cadence, this is a shattering, incandescent novel that conjures the pain and pageantry of struggling to imagine a future."--
Subject
  1. Fiction
  2. Nineteen nineties > Fiction
  3. FICTION / Literary
  4. Boston (Mass.) > Fiction
  5. Gay culture > Fiction
  6. AIDS (Disease) > Fiction
  7. FICTION / LGBT / Gay
  8. FICTION / Coming of Age
  9. Massachusetts > Boston
Genre/Form
  1. Fiction.
Call number
  1. JFD 18-3864
Author
  1. Sycamore, Mattilda Bernstein, author.
Title
  1. Sketchtasy / Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore.
Publisher
  1. Vancouver, BC : Arsenal Pulp Press, [2018]
Copyright date
  1. ©2018
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Other form:
  1. Sycamore, Mattilda Bernstein, author. Sketchtasy./ Vancouver, British Columbia : Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018. (CaOONL)20189014172
ISBN
  1. 1551527294 (paperback)
  2. 9781551527291 (paperback)
Research call number
  1. JFD 18-3864
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