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1 online resource. 1 online resource |
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- PART 1 Perhaps -- La Bohème -- Hello, Larry -- Scenes from a Marriage -- The Company She Keeps -- Tea and Sympathy -- The Man in the Brooks Brothers Suit -- Duel in the Sun -- Secret Love -- A Weekend in the Country -- My Lover Is a Fish -- PART 2 Alas -- It Never Entered My Mind -- The Gentleman Is a Dopa -- Into the Woods -- On the Waterfront -- Dreams About Clothes -- Good-bye to All That -- Sanctuary -- The Egoist -- Greetings from San Francisco -- Since You Went Away -- PART 3 lndeed -- The return of the Native -- Animal Magnetism -- Sometime in New York City -- Sorry-Grateful -- Scenes of Clerical Life -- Bette Davis Eyes -- He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven -- Ballad of a Thin Man -- Frequent Flyer -- The Art of Losing |
| Summary |
Before the onset of his irreversible decline, Eddie Socket always suspected he was on the verge of something. Now that "something" has arrived in the form of Merrit Mather, an attractive older gentleman of impeccable taste in everything from sweaters to his numerous sexual conquests. That Merrit happens to be the lover of Eddie's agitated boss, Saul, hardly fazes the smitten Eddie; that the elusive Merrit loses interest in Eddie with dizzying speed hardly dims his ardor. While Eddie continues his futile chase, he finds solace in his roommate, Polly, involved in her own implausible affair with a self-involved banker. Both Eddie and Polly eventually conclude that solitude is their best option. But even that is not possible as Eddie finds his life taking an unexpected turn--a turn that that serves as the catalyst for Eddie, love-ravaged Polly, and the indomitable Saul to reclaim their lives.First published in 1989 and winner of the 1990 Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Debut Novel, The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket is one of the first novels to respond to the global AIDS crisis. A comedy of absurdist horror, it weaponizes the comic as a way of intensifying the tragic aspects of AIDS, which were especially acute in the early 1980s, and the scars of which are still visible today |
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Description based on print version record |
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AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Fiction
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Americans -- Europe -- Fiction
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Young men -- Fiction
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LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
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AIDS (Disease) -- Patients
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Americans
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Young men
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Europe -- Fiction
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Project Muse. distributor.
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| ISBN |
9780823299430 |
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0823299449 |
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0823299430 |
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9780823299447 |
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