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Author:

Torres, Justin, 1980-, author.

Title:

Blackouts : a novel / Justin Torres.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

FarrarStraus and Giroux,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Storytelling--Fiction.
Psychology--Research--Fiction.
Death--Fiction.
LGBTQ+ people--Fiction.
Gay men--Fiction.
Novels.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Summary:

"From the bestselling, acclaimed, beloved author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collective"--
"Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man 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. The 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 ices 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 oblivian; 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?"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0374293570
9780374293574

LCCN:

2023015272

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