The Resource Visions and revisions : coming of age in the age of AIDS, Dale Peck
Visions and revisions : coming of age in the age of AIDS, Dale Peck
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- Summary
- "Novelist and critic Dale Peck's latest work--part memoir, part extended essay--is a foray into what the author calls "the second half of the first half of the AIDS epidemic, " i.e., the period between 1987, when the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) was founded, and 1996, when the advent of combination therapy transformed AIDS from a virtual death sentence into a chronic manageable illness. Reminiscent of Joan Didion's The White Album and Kurt Vonnegut's Palm Sunday, Visions and Revisions has been assembled from over a dozen essays and articles that have been extensively rewritten and recombined to form a sweeping, collage-style portrait of a tumultuous era. Moving seamlessly from the lyrical to the analytical to the reportorial, Peck's story takes readers from the serial killings of gay men in New York, London, and Milwaukee, through Peck's first loves upon coming out of the closet, to the transformation of LGBT people from marginal, idealistic fighters to their present place in a world of widespread, if fraught, mainstream acceptance. The narrative pays particular attention to the words and deeds of AIDS activists, offering a street-level portrait of ACT UP with considerations of AIDS-centered fiction and criticism of the era, as well as intimate, sometimes elegiac portraits of artists, activists, and HIV-positive people Peck knew. Peck's fiery rhetoric against a government that sat on its hands for the first several years of the epidemic is tinged with the idealism of a young gay man discovering his political, artistic, and sexual identity. The result is a visionary and indispensable work from one of America's most brilliant and controversial authors. "--
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Visions and revisions : coming of age in the age of AIDS
- Title
- Visions and revisions
- Title remainder
- coming of age in the age of AIDS
- Statement of responsibility
- Dale Peck
- Subject
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- AIDS (Disease) -- Treatment -- United States
- AIDS (Disease) in literature
- AIDS activists -- United States -- Biography
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
- Autobiographies
- Biographies
- AIDS (Disease) -- Patients | Medical care -- United States
- Gays -- Crimes against -- United States
- Gays in literature
- Peck, Dale
- Gay authors -- United States -- Biography
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Novelist and critic Dale Peck's latest work--part memoir, part extended essay--is a foray into what the author calls "the second half of the first half of the AIDS epidemic, " i.e., the period between 1987, when the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) was founded, and 1996, when the advent of combination therapy transformed AIDS from a virtual death sentence into a chronic manageable illness. Reminiscent of Joan Didion's The White Album and Kurt Vonnegut's Palm Sunday, Visions and Revisions has been assembled from over a dozen essays and articles that have been extensively rewritten and recombined to form a sweeping, collage-style portrait of a tumultuous era. Moving seamlessly from the lyrical to the analytical to the reportorial, Peck's story takes readers from the serial killings of gay men in New York, London, and Milwaukee, through Peck's first loves upon coming out of the closet, to the transformation of LGBT people from marginal, idealistic fighters to their present place in a world of widespread, if fraught, mainstream acceptance. The narrative pays particular attention to the words and deeds of AIDS activists, offering a street-level portrait of ACT UP with considerations of AIDS-centered fiction and criticism of the era, as well as intimate, sometimes elegiac portraits of artists, activists, and HIV-positive people Peck knew. Peck's fiery rhetoric against a government that sat on its hands for the first several years of the epidemic is tinged with the idealism of a young gay man discovering his political, artistic, and sexual identity. The result is a visionary and indispensable work from one of America's most brilliant and controversial authors. "--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Peck, Dale
- Dewey number
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- 813/.54
- B
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3566.E245
- LC item number
- Z46 2015
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Peck, Dale
- Authors, American
- Gay authors
- AIDS activists
- AIDS (Disease)
- AIDS (Disease)
- Gays
- AIDS (Disease) in literature
- Gays in literature
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Visions and revisions : coming of age in the age of AIDS, Dale Peck
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 212 pages :
- Isbn
- 9781616954413
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2014030846
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)ocn884298175
- (Sirsi) o884298175
- (OCoLC)884298175
- Label
- Visions and revisions : coming of age in the age of AIDS, Dale Peck
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 212 pages :
- Isbn
- 9781616954413
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2014030846
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocn884298175
- (Sirsi) o884298175
- (OCoLC)884298175
Subject
- AIDS (Disease) -- Treatment -- United States
- AIDS (Disease) in literature
- AIDS activists -- United States -- Biography
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
- Autobiographies
- Biographies
- AIDS (Disease) -- Patients | Medical care -- United States
- Gays -- Crimes against -- United States
- Gays in literature
- Peck, Dale
- Gay authors -- United States -- Biography
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