Time Remaining - Hardcover

Time Remaining

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition, 1993, 1st printing [no number line]. Pristine, clean & tight copy, unread & bright AS NEW, really a perfect book, comprising "two wildly brilliant, moving, electric stories of gay life in New York during the last 25 years. The first story introduces Delancey, performance artist and, in his words, 'one of the sole survivors' of a band known as the Eleven against Heaven. Delancey's recollections of four decades in the flamboyant New York wilds---spirited, defiant, festive, bright as paint (or acid)---are filled with the force of longing and the melodrama of remembering. Delancey's prologue sets the stage for the title story, 'Time Remaining,' in which the formidable Odette O'Doyle---semi-retired transvestite ballerina, veteran of foreign wars, and polymath recorder of the stories of valiant lives---assumes the spotlight. On a midnight train to Long Island's South Fork, Odette reports on his just-completed mission: he has deposited the ashes of eight of the former 'Eleven' in various rivers, canals, fjords, and harbors of Europe. Through the ceremonies of time, travel, ritual re-enactment, and eternal return, this renegade celebrant officiates at something very like an Irish Catholic wake. He recalls a glittering chain of outrageous adventures and a terrible history of decimating disease and death while conducting a private service of reconciliation and renewal. TIME REMAINING is a moving, defiantly hilarious solemnization of life and love in the age of AIDS." [jacket copy] "TIME REMAINING is splendid, a sad and beautiful elegy."---Harold Bloom. "One of the many pleasures of James McCourt's books is that he never writes down. Only up-up-up. He assumes his readers are as observant, as amusable, as learned, as exuberant, as generous as he is. Who would not want to live up to his expectations? And, oh, yes, he has perfect pitch."---Susan Sontag. Attractive Knopf production w/deckle edge, sharp corners, square & tight binding. Jacket & book look newer than new, quite presentable & collectible. See my listings RUB436, 912 & 914 for more McCourt titles. Artikel-Nr. RUB913

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