About Ed - Robert Gluck

Descriere About Ed - Robert Gluck

A moving memoir about love, AIDS, grief, and memory by one of the most adventurous writers to come out of San Francisco's LGBTQ+ scene. \nI was a writer, but not the writer I needed to be. For that I had to become a different person, Robert Glück, widely acclaimed as a novelist and as a theorist of the new narrative, recently told the Paris Review, in which a section of About Ed has appeared. About Ed is Glück's portrait of the artist Ed Aulerich-Sugai, his sometime lover, met in the seventies in San Francisco, when gay life emerged unabashedly from the closet. I wanted to find in Ed something to latch on to that was outside my egotism and fear, my threadbare relation to the world--a leap through Ed into lyric time, Glück has said, and in this book that is both a novel and my version of an AIDS memoir he wanted to capture the full range of his feelings for Ed: estranged from Ed, bored by him, moved by him. \n \nIt is a book about the life they lived together--art and writing and family and sex and death--and, composed over many decades, it is also a book about how the past continues to change in memory and to charge the present. What is the right question to ask about a life? Glück asks, describing About Ed as a collaborative project, since Ed helped me write this book. Ed gave him notes to fashion a chapter about the day he was diagnosed so I could describe his experience from the inside, and after Ed died, Daniel, Ed's partner, lent me Ed's dream journals. . . . He started writing them in 1970, the year that we met. We both used his journals, not as puzzles to solve the truth of a self but as a commons producing images that we harvested for paintings and poems. And fifty years later, there I was reading and copying out and running away from his dreams. Are they a condensed version of Ed? Shorthand? Distillation? Is he knowable and unknowable in the same degree sleeping or waking? \n \nAbout Ed is a challenging and beautiful book by one of America's finest and most adventurous writers.\n

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New York Review Of Books

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9781681377766

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