The House of Impossible Beauties

Informationen zum Autor Joseph Cassara was born and raised in New Jersey. He holds degrees from Columbia University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop and been a writing fellow at the Fine Arts Centre in Provincetown! Massachusetts. This is his first novel. Klappentext Inspired by the real House of Xtravaganza in the seminal documentary Paris is Burning! and set in New York City from the late 70s-early 90s against the backdrop of the impending AIDS crisis! The House of Impossible Beauties follows a cast of gay and transgender club kids navigating the Harlem ball scene and the Christopher Street Piers as they flee their traumatic pasts and band together to form the city's first all-Latino House.Told in a voice that brims with wit! rage! tenderness and fierce yearning! The House of Impossible Beauties is a tragic story of love! family and the resilience of the human spirit. For fans of City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg and The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Cassara
• Publisher: Oneworld
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781786073150
• ISBN: 978-1-78607-315-0
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 233 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; New York, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Of specific Gay interest, Relating to gay people, FICTION / LGBTQ+ / Gay, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary