{"product_id":"fascination-9781635900408","title":"Fascination","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA memoir of gay life in 1970s Long Island by one of the leading proponents of the New Narrative movement.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFascination\u003c\/i\u003e brings together an early memoir, \u003ci\u003eBedrooms Have Windows\u003c\/i\u003e (1989) and a previously unpublished prose work, \u003ci\u003eBachelors Get Lonely\u003c\/i\u003e, by the poet and novelist Kevin Killian, one of the founding members of the New Narrative movement. The two together depict the author''s early years struggling to become a writer in the sexed-up, boozy, drug-ridden world of Long Island''s North Shore in the 1970s. It concludes with \u003ci\u003eTriangles in the Sand\u003c\/i\u003e, a new, previously unpublished memoir of Killian''s brief affair in the 1970s with the composer Arthur Russell. \u003ci\u003eFascination\u003c\/i\u003e offers a moving and often funny view of the loneliness and desire that defined gay life of that era—a time in which Richard Nixon''s resignation intersected with David Bowie''s \u003ci\u003eDiamond Dogs\u003c\/i\u003e—from one of the leading voices in experimental gay writing of the past thirty years. “Move along the velvet rope,” Killian writes in \u003ci\u003eBedrooms Have Windows\u003c\/i\u003e, “run your shaky fingers past the lacquered Keith Haring graffito: ''You did not live in our time! Be Sorry!''”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48887278633303,"sku":"9781635900408","price":14.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781635900408.jpg?v=1722543806","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fascination-9781635900408","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}