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Description

1. 46 pages; 19 cm.

Summary

1. "In this brilliant two-part memoir, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Hilton Als distills into one cocktail the deep and potent complexities of love and of loss, of Prince and of power, of desire and of race. It's delicious and it's got the kick of a mule, especially as Als swirls into his mix the downtown queer nightclub scene, the AIDS crisis, Prince's ass in his tight little pants, an ill-fated peach pie, Dorothy Parker, and his desire for true love. Always surprising and stealthily-even painfully-moving, Als plumbs longing: "I inched closer to him as he danced to you, Prince. But already he was you, Prince, in my mind. He had the same coloring, and the same loneliness I wanted to fill with my admiration. I couldn't love him enough. We were colored boys together. There is not enough of that in the world, Prince-but you know that. Still, when other people see that kind of fraternity they want to kill it. But we were so committed to each other, we never could work out what that violence meant. There was so much love between us. Why didn't anyone want us to share it?"--

Series statement

1. New Directions paperbook ; 1545

Uniform title

1. New Directions paperbook ; 1545.

Alternative title

1. Paean to Prince

Subject

1. Als, Hilton
2. Prince > Criticism and interpretation
3. Prince
4. African American men > Biography
5. African American sexual minorities > Biography
6. African American musicians
7. Sex role in music
8. Desire
9. African American sexual minorities
10. African American men
11. African American LGBTQ+ people
12. Black LGBTQ+ people
13. Criticism and interpretation
14. United States

Genre/Form

1. Biographies.
2. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
3. LGBTQ+ biographies.

Call number

1. Sc C 23-38

Note

1. "A New Directions paperbook original."

Author

1. Als, Hilton, author.

Title

1. My pinup : a paean to Prince / Hilton Als.

Publisher

1. New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2022.

Copyright date

1. ©2022

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. New Directions paperbook ; 1545
2. New Directions paperbook ; 1545.

Local subject

1. Black author.

LCCN

1. 2022028205

ISBN

1. 9780811234498 (paperback)
2. 0811234495 (paperback)
3. 9780811234504 (ebook)

Research call number

1. Sc C 23-38