Blackouts - Paperback - VERY GOOD
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand
- Unbranded
- MPN
- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 9781250338068
- Book Title
- Blackouts : a Novel
- Publisher
- Picador
- Item Length
- 8.2 in
- Publication Year
- 2024
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Hispanic & Latino, Lgbt / Gay, Literary
- Item Weight
- 14.5 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.4 in
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Picador
ISBN-10
1250338069
ISBN-13
9781250338068
eBay Product ID (ePID)
19064614822
Product Key Features
Book Title
Blackouts : a Novel
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Hispanic & Latino, Lgbt / Gay, Literary
Publication Year
2024
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
14.5 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"Sweeping, ingenious . . . A kiss to build a dream on." --Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air "An extraordinary achievement . . . A perfect book." --Bill Goldstein, Weekend Today in New York "Torres swings for the bleachers in Blackouts , a transfixing collage of gorgeous prose and manipulated illustrations . . . It's easily 2023's sexiest novel . . . A tour de force. Run, don't walk, to buy it." --Hamilton Cain, Star Tribune "As ambitious and bold as it is beautifully elegiac, this dynamic novel captures the act of storytelling as though one's life depends on it . . . An atmospheric, brilliant novel. --Lauren LeBlanc, The Boston Globe "The supreme pleasure of [ Blackouts ] is its slow obliteration of any firm idea of reality . . . Torres haunts this book full of ghosts like a ghost himself, and with this novel, he has passed the haunting on." --Hugh Ryan, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) "Shimmering, fable-like . . . An ingenious assemblage of research, vignette, image and conceit . . . Playful and mysterious, there's much in it to admire." --Charles Arrowsmith, The Washington Post "A surreal, expansive, audacious excavation of queer history and identity." --David Canfield, Vanity Fair "A transfixing and emotional examination of history . . . [ Blackouts ] illuminates the ways in which the lives and experiences of marginalized people have long been omitted from written records." --Megan McCluskey, Time "Artfully blur[s] history, autobiography and fiction . . . Beautiful." --Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal "If you locked Shirley Jackson and David Wojnarowicz in a room together, they might invent the kind of moldering dreamworld that Justin Torres conjures in [ Blackouts ] . . . [A] glorious book." --Beejay Silcox, The Guardian "An experimental journey into the annals of queer history that is equal parts intergenerational love letter and homoerotic fever dream." --Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times "A vital novel about the erasure of queer history." --Adrienne Westenfeld, Esquire "A dreamy novel that unfurls among mixed media and Socratic dialogues, moving freely between fact and fiction as it proposes and complicates questions about how history is made." --Joshua Barone, The New York Times "Dazzling . . . Torres has created his own queer history story through the eyes of the narrator learning from Juan through art, poetry, and more. The result is prismatic and beautiful." --Sarah Neilson, Shondaland "A triumph." --Christian Paz, Vox "Each page of Blackouts is like a lens that Torres clicks into place, some of them clarifying your vision, others obscuring it, until, eventually, you can see." --Tope Folarin, The Atlantic "Irresistible . . . [An] ambitious, unruly novel of ideas . . . [and] a deeply moving queer love story." --Steven Pfau, Chicago Review of Books "As demanding and beautifully difficult as it is seductive, disarming, and important." --Brontez Purnell, BOMB "Disorientation is a pleasure in [ Blackouts ] . . . An earnest project that does not seek to distill settled conclusions from the queer past." --Colton Valentine, Bookforum " Blackouts soars . . . A rare masterpiece." --Christopher Bollen, Interview
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
813.6
Synopsis
Winner of the National Book Award Winner of the California Book Award Winner of Tournament of Books Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly but who has haunted the edges of his life: Juan Gay. Playful raconteur, child lost and found and lost, guardian of the institutionalized, Juan has a project to pass along, one built around a true artifact of a book-- Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns --and its devastating history. This book contains accounts collected in the early twentieth century from queer subjects by a queer researcher, Jan Gay, whose groundbreaking work was then co-opted by a committee, her name buried. The voices of these subjects have been filtered, muted, but it is possible to hear them from within and beyond the text, which, in Juan's tattered volumes, has been redacted with black marker on nearly every page. As Juan waits for his end, he and the narrator recount for each other moments of joy and oblivion; they resurrect loves, lives, mothers, fathers, minor heroes. In telling their own stories and the story of the book, they resist the ravages of memory and time. The past is with us, beside us, ahead of us; what are we to create from its gaps and erasures? A book about storytelling--its legacies, dangers, delights, and potential for change--and a bold exploration of form, art, and love, Justin Torres's Blackouts uses fiction to see through the inventions of history and narrative. A marvel of creative imagination, it draws on testimony, photographs, illustrations, and a range of influences as it insists that we look long and steadily at what we have inherited and what we have made--a world full of ghostly shadows and flashing moments of truth. A reclamation of ransacked history, a celebration of defiance, and a transformative encounter, Blackouts mines the stories that have been kept from us and brings them into the light.
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- 5***t (1692)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseI must say from the very beginning of this transaction that everything went smooth. The seller gave me a good quality product for a great price that was brand new and appeared to be better than what was pictured. I plan on purchasing more products in the near future from this seller. The product was shipped and packaged with care and love. Magnificent communication and all of what I said makes this seller a great asset to the eBay community as well as the marketplace. This is why I came back.