Blackouts

Juan Gay lies dying in a room in The Palace: a monumental, fading institution in the desert. There, a young man cares for him - someone whom Juan met only once, but who has haunted the edges of his life ever since. As the end approaches, the two trade stories - resurrecting lost loves, mothers and fathers - and their lives are woven, ineluctably, into a broader story of sexuality, pathology and oppression. And, through their conversations, another story is told: that of the radical queer anthropologist Jan Gay, whose groundbreaking work was co-opted, and stifled, by the committee she served.Blending fact with fiction, and drawing on oral histories and historical records, screenplay, testimony and image, Blackouts is a haunting, dreamlike rumination on memory and erasure - on the ways in which stories sustain histories.

Product details

• Authors: Justin Torres
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.08.2024
• EAN: 9781847083982
• ISBN: 978-1-84708-398-2
• No. of pages: 295
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; USA, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Alternative History, Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest, Alternative history fiction, Relating to gay people, FICTION / LGBTQ+ / Gay, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary