AT YOUR OWN RISK: A Saint’s Testament
Language: English
Published by Vintage, 1993
- First Edition
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Alison Carne Books and Ephemera, Canterbury, Kent, United KingdomAlison Carne Books and Ephemera
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FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Softback with illustrated card covers. 153pp., illustrated in b/w. A clean copy with no markings or inscriptions. Small scuff to rear cover where a price sticker has been removed. Tiny dent to front cover. Faint reading crease to spine. A VERY GOOD COPY.
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- Title
- AT YOUR OWN RISK: A Saint’s Testament
- Author
- JARMEN, Derek
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Publication year
- 1993
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0099222914
- ISBN 13
- 9780099222910
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 150 grams
Impassioned, witty and polemical, At Your Own Risk is Derek Jarman's defiant celebration of gay sexuality.
In At Your Own Risk, Derek Jarman weaves poetry, prose, photographs and newspaper extracts into a rich tapestry of gay experience in the UK. The buttoned-up repression of the fifties and sixties makes way for liberation and free love in the seventies, only to be chased by the terror and pain of HIV/AIDS. This is Jarman at his passionate best, written when he was already ill with HIV and in the midst of the moral panic surrounding the AIDS crisis. Defiant and furious, he not only celebrates his own sexuality but skewers wider society for its brazen homophobia.
Reissued here 25 years after Jarman's death, with an introduction by Straight Jacket author Matthew Todd, At Your Own Risk remains a singular work. It is a powerful reminder of how far we have come and how much further we have left to go.
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