James McCourt: Lasting City

The Anatomy of Nostalgia. USA/UK 2014, 323 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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Enjoined by his dying mother to »tell everything«, James McCourt was liberated by this deathbed wish to do just that. »Lasting City« is an operatic recollection that braids a nostalgic portrait of old-Irish New York with a boy's funny, gutter-snipe precocity and hardly innocent coming-of-age in the 1940s and 1950s. A literary outlaw in the poetic tradition of Verlaine and ... Weiterlesen

James McCourt: Queer Street

USA/UK 2004, 578 pp., brochure, € 34.95
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The author captures the voices of a mad, bygone era with philosophical reflections, forensic anecdotes, and a hailstorm of one-liners. Beginning with the influx of liberated veterans into downtown New York and barreling through four decades of crisis and triumph up to the floodtide of AIDS, »Queer Street« positions McCourt's own exhilarating experience against the whirlwind history of the era. ... Weiterlesen