Killing Me Softly: Morir Amando - Softcover

Ibanez-Carrasco, Francisco

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0974638811 ISBN 13: 9780974638812

Publisher: Suspect Thoughts Press, 2005

Synopsis

Fiction. Gay / Lesbian Studies. Ibanez-Carrasco's second book, KILLING ME SOFTLY presents twelve short stories of love gone wrong, in the process ripping the veils between the moral and the mundane, the prim and the grim, and rough trade. Genre-blurring and gender-bending, here is the Canada that lies in the shadow of the maple leaf, cementing Ibanez-Carrasco's reputation as one of Canada's reigning bad boys of lit. "His is a four-thirty-in-the morning, done-one-too-many-lines-of-crystal lens. The heroes in his stories can be HIV-positive, not white, and sometimes self-loathing. If you scraped the rainbow paint off your pride rings with a dirty thumbnail, you would find Francisco's world, skillfully rendered and beautifully imperfect" -- Ivan E. Coyote.

About this title

About the Author

Francisco Ibanez-Carrasco was born in Santiago de Chile in 1963 to an illiterate single mother who was a live-in maid. He grew up poor, the offspring of a military dictatorship, with an acquired taste for the bourgeoisie, boots, Catholicism, and queerness. In 1985, he disco-danced his happy-go-lucky feet to Vancouver, BC, where he promptly acquired his HIV, his Canadian citizenship (in 1991), his doctorate in Education from Simon Fraser University (in 1999), and an unending appetite for research, writing, and teaching. A sexual exile of sorts, he devotes many of his implausible tales to examining how desire geographically displaces individuals and infects lives. He lives, with his life partner John and ghosts of previous dead lovers and cats, in Vancouver where he leads a double life as a decent social scientist and an indecent author. He exercises a polite degree of AIDS activism as the Co-Chair of the Canadian Working Group on HIV and Rehabilitation.

Review

"...a sharp eye, a flaming tongue, and a greedy libido that wouldn’t let me put this book down." -- Thomas Waugh, author of The Romance of Transgression in Canada

"...introduces a new voice to gay fiction, seductively Latin, Poe-esquely North American, very contemporary, and seemingly utterly unafraid." -- Felice Picano, author of Dryland’s End

"...scraped the rainbow paint off your pride rings you would find Francisco’s world, skillfully rendered and beautifully imperfect." -- Ivan E. Coyote, author of Close to Spider Man

Ibanez-Carrasco introduces us to a vision of the urban queer never glimpsed in advertisements for tight shirts and designer jeans. His is a four-thirty-in-the-morning, done-one-too-many-lines-of-crystal lens. The heroes in his stories can be HIV-positive, not white, and sometimes self-loathing. If you scraped the rainbow paint off your pride rings with a dirty thumbnail, you would find Francisco's world, skillfully rendered and beautifully imperfect. --Ivan E. Coyote, author of Close to Spider Man

Killing Me Softly introduces a new voice to gay fiction, seductively Latin, Poe-esquely North American, very contemporary, and seemingly utterly unafraid. Ibanez-Carrasco is someone to watch. --Felice Picano, author of Dryland's End

Ibanez-Carrasco introduces us to a vision of the urban queer never glimpsed in advertisements for tight shirts and designer jeans. His is a four-thirty-in-the-morning, done-one-too-many-lines-of-crystal lens. The heroes in his stories can be HIV-positive, not white, and sometimes self-loathing. If you scraped the rainbow paint off your pride rings with a dirty thumbnail, you would find Francisco's world, skillfully rendered and beautifully imperfect. --Ivan E. Coyote, author of Close to Spider Man

Edition details

• Publisher: Suspect Thoughts Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0974638811
• ISBN 13: 9780974638812
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 208