As it moves from Chicago in the late 80's to Los Angeles on the cusp of a new millennium, Patchwork encompasses a mercurial decade in the lives of its characters. This debut novel - told with candor, insight, and a humor both gentle and scathing - sets the story of gay lovers in transition, and a family in the midst of personal upheaval, as they struggle to redefine themselves in the shadow of AIDS. The effects of the AIDS crisis on an extended Midwestern family unfold against the backdrop of the NAMES Project Quilt in Chicago in 1989. The ailing Randy Manning, his partner Sal, and Randy's parents Ben and Barbara spend a day at Navy Pier to see the AIDS quilt, where Randy plans to unveil his own remembrance piece. After Randy's death, Sal disappears to Los Angeles where he tries to reconcile his past, his H.I.V. status, and a world where the promises of new drugs coexist with the possibility of new love. Patchwork portrays a mercurial decade in its characters lives: lovers in transition and a family in the midst of personal upheaval as they struggle to redefine themselves in the shadow of tragedy.
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Dan Loughry is a Los Angeles-based writer who has contributed film and music reviews, along with the occasional feature, to Frontiers-IN Los Angeles for the past six years. He's been an active contributing writer to the pop-culture website Modern Tonic (www.moderntonic.com) and has reviewed for the West Virginia monthly Graffiti. He was an English major at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois; worked in the entertainment industry in both New York and L.A.; and work-shopped a one-act play in the Playwrights Horizons' writer's program that became the inspiration for Patchwork, his debut novel. It will be available from Harvard Square Editions, Ltd. on July 31, 2011. He is also featured in the anthology Voice from the Planet.
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Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | As it moves from Chicago in the late 80's to Los Angeles on the cusp of a new millennium, Patchwork encompasses a mercurial decade in the lives of its characters. This debut novel - told with candor, insight, and a humor both gentle and scathing - sets the story of lovers in transition, and a family in the midst of personal upheaval, as they struggle to redefine themselves in the shadow of tragedy. "A deeply moving story of human relationships, yours and mine, in elegant prose that tackles tragedy and hope, loss and grief, with refreshing honestly and humor. Loughry's brilliant voice and haunting story will follow you long after you've turned the last page."- Dora Levy Mossanen, author of HAREM and COURTESAN"Dan Loughry is a maestro of memory and observation. In Patchwork, he achieves the impressive feat of telling a story that feels archetypal in its outlines - as it follows its protagonist through three eventful decades, from the beginning of the age of AIDS to the era of bemused long-term survivors - but ultimately wins us over through its masterful recording and layering of the specific human details and discoveries that make up a particular journey, and a particular life."- Dave Awl, author of WHAT THE SEA MEANS and FACEBOOK ME!, and editor of 200 NEO-FUTURIST PLAYS. Artikel-Nr. 10891098/2
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