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Synopsis
Like Hubert Selby's joyously tragic characters, Adarro Minton has created a faction of players that seem to exist on an Earth 2. The author has created powerful, challenging and at the end, beautiful stories about the most important and universal things in life and about humanity. We are vaguely familiar these people, we have put them in radical pigeonholes and expect The Department of Homeland Security to keep them in their place. This book contains stories of people living in the metropolitan back ends of New York City, some rich, some poor, all streetwise, misguided and desperate. a fat girl, a faggot, a lawyer and several others. We follow as their lives are systematically broken down and destroyed. This is a harsh, raw, and daring piece of writing. Be warned: not for the faint hearted.
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About the Author
I have been expelled from St Peter Claver, St Catherine of Siena, and The Union Springs Academy, a Seventh Day Adventist boarding school, after refusing to submit to a weekly shower game that five lusty upper-classmen came up with.
I survived the disco era in New York City, in imagined opulent splendor at Studio 54, Better Days, The Nickel Bar, 220 Club, The Saint, The Mineshaft, and The Paradise Garage.
I survived mescaline, blotter acid, cocaine, freebase cocaine, crack, danger sex in subway bathrooms, hunger, homelessness, and three serious suicide attempts.
In 1999, I lost the use of my arms and legs to a mysterious, and still undiagnosed form of myositis.
Thanks to 12 steps, and the love of K.D. Haynes, I got up (so to speak) off of my clinically depressed ass, and in the year 2000, I began to forage through a lifetime of stories circling my soul. This collection represents the first set of them.
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- PublisherOutskirts Pr
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1598003860
- ISBN 13 9781598003864
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages152
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