OUR HISTORY IN NEW YORK

ABRAMS, LINSEY

ISBN 10: 0964129205 / ISBN 13: 9780964129207

Published by GLOBAL CITY PRESS, NY, 1995

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: OUR HISTORY IN NEW YORK
• Publisher: GLOBAL CITY PRESS, NY
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0964129205
• ISBN 13: 9780964129207
• Binding: PAPERBACK
• Edition: 1ST
• Condition: VG
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

Our History in New York covers a single year in the lives of narrator Chloe, her long-time lover Helen, and their friends. From AIDS to the glory of Greenwich Village to romance and aging, the novel addresses time, art, mortality and community at a century s end. The New York Times said of this nationally reviewed author: Abrams has a superb talent for the specific She [has] her own style a mixture of introspection, common sense, daydreaming and recollection and controls it beautifully. Sojourner called each chapter an exquisite short story Abrams paints neighborhoods with the precision of the old Dutch Masters.

Reviews

Abrams' short novel lives on its textures--those of its various New York settings as well as those of the pursuits, passions, and fragilities of its characters. The latter are an interwoven lot, members of the city's gay and lesbian community who meet at ACT-UP gatherings, run into or miss each other at the Gay Pride Parade, and catch up at a Gay Men's Health Crisis fund-raising fashion show in an abandoned supermarket. Among them are Alex and Rosalie, a lesbian couple having a baby; Rodger, the narrator's former theatrical compatriot and onetime drinking buddy, now drinking more than ever as he faces death from AIDS; Helen, a TV news editor who is not out at work but tries, anyway, to edit in order to present fair representations of gay men and lesbians; and Ramon, a well-read teen in the city's gay high-school program who turns to crack. Connecting all these whirling lives is Chloe--Ramon's teacher, Helen's lover, and a roving general reporter on this particular slice of gay history and life. Whitney Scott