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03189aam a22005418i 4500 001 156995CEA49B11EA9676382F97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200815010218 008 191021s2020 scu b 000 1 eng 010 $a 2019046338 020 $a 1938235622 020 $a 9781938235627 (hardcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)1125274788 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCF $d TOH $d SO$ $d NZAUC $d IW5 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS3619.I27 $b P74 2020 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Sickels, Carter, $e author. 245 14 $a The prettiest star / $c Carter Sickels. 250 $a First edition. 260 $a Spartanburg, SC : $b Hub City Press, $c [2020] 300 $a 295 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a "Small-town Appalachia doesn't have a lot going for it, but it's where Brian is from, where his family is, and where he's chosen to return to die. At eighteen, Brian, like so many other promising young gay men, arrived in New York City without much more than a love for the freedom and release from his past that it promised. But within six short years, AIDS would claim his lover, his friends, and his future. With nothing left in New York but memories of death, Brian decides to write his mother a letter asking to come back to the place, and family, he was once so desperate to escape. Set in 1986, a year after Rock Hudson's death shifted the public consciousness of the epidemic and brought the news of AIDS into living rooms and kitchens across America, The Prettiest Star is part Dog Years by Mark Doty and part Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt. But it is also an urgent story now: it a novel about the politics and fragility of the body; it is a novel about sex and shame. And it is a novel that speaks to the question of what home and family means when we try to forge a life for ourselves in a world that can be harsh and unpredictable. It is written at the far reaches of love and understanding, and zeroes in on the moments where those two forces reach for each other, and sometimes touch."-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a AIDS (Disease) $x Patients $z United States $v Fiction. 650 0 $a AIDS (Disease) $x Social aspects $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Gay men $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Gay men $x Family relationships $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Families $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Small cities $z Appalachian Region $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Nineteen eighties $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Appalachian Region $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Gay fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Social problem fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 10 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20240702023854.0 952 $l SIPD314 $d 20230201021707.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722064506.0 952 $l SCPC074 $d 20210422013922.0 952 $l FYPI314 $d 20210302015335.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20200711010712.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20200703011646.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20200703010518.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20200702010354.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20200602014619.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=156995CEA49B11EA9676382F97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search