Fascination av Kevin Killian

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<b>A memoir of gay life in 1970s Long Island by one of the leading proponents of the New Narrative movement.</b><p><i>Fascination</i> brings together an early memoir, <i>Bedrooms Have Windows</i> (1989) and a previously unpublished prose work, <i>Bachelors Get Lonely</i>, by the poet and novelist Kevin Killian, one of the founding members of the New Narrative movement. The two together depict the author''s early years struggling to become a writer in the sexed-up, boozy, drug-ridden world of Long Island''s North Shore in the 1970s. It concludes with <i>Triangles in the Sand</i>, a new, previously unpublished memoir of Killian''s brief affair in the 1970s with the composer Arthur Russell. <i>Fascination</i> offers a moving and often funny view of the loneliness and desire that defined gay life of that era—a time in which Richard Nixon''s resignation intersected with David Bowie''s <i>Diamond Dogs</i>—from one of the leading voices in experimental gay writing o