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Sketchtasy

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Sketchtasy

SKU: 9781551527291 Category: Product ID: 92718

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Title: Sketchtasy
Author: SYCAMORE BERNSTEIN MATTILDA
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/10/2018
Imprint: ARSENAL
Price: $25.00
Publishing status: Active

Sketchtasy takes place in that late-night moment when everything comes together, and everything falls apart–it’s an urgent, glittering, devastating novel about the perils of queer world-making in the mid-’90s. This is Boston in 1995, a city defined by a rabid fear of difference. Alexa, an incisive twenty-one-year-old queen, faces everyday brutality with determined nonchalance. Rejecting middle-class pretensions, she negotiates past and present traumas with a scathing critique of the world. Drawn to the ecstasy of drugged-out escapades, Alexa searches for nourishment in a gay culture bonded by clubs and conformity, willful apathy, and the specter of AIDS. Is there any hope for communal care? Sketchtasy brings 1990s gay culture startlingly back to life, as Alexa and her friends grapple with the impact of growing up at a time when desire and death are intertwined. With an intoxicating voice and unruly cadence, this is a shattering, incandescent novel that conjures the pain and pageantry of struggling to imagine a future.

ISBN: 9781551527291
Dimension: 152mm X 203mm

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Dimensions 152 × 203 mm