Queer Street: Rise and Fall of an American Culture, 1947-1985

McCourt, James

ISBN 10: 0393326403 / ISBN 13: 9780393326406

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 2004

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New York: Norton, 2004. First edition. 8vo. Trade paperback. 577 pp. New.

Seller Inventory # 019234

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Queer Street: Rise and Fall of an American Culture, 1947-1985
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, New York
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393326403
• ISBN 13: 9780393326406
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: Octavo ~23 cm / 9" tall Octavo, Approximately 23 centimetres, or 9 inches tall
• Seller catalogs:
  • Gay and Lesbian

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Synopsis

"A heroically imaginative account of gay metropolitan culture, an elegy and an apologia for a generation."―New York Times Book Review

A fierce critical intelligence animates every page of Queer Street. Its sentences are dizzying divagations. The postwar generation of queer New York has found a sophisticated bard singing 'the elders' history' (The New York Times). James McCourt's seminal Queer Street has proven unrivaled in its ability to capture the voices of a mad, bygone era. Beginning with the influx of liberated veterans into downtown New York and barreling through four decades of crisis and triumph up to the era of the floodtide of AIDS, McCourt positions his own exhilarating experience against the whirlwind history of the era. The result is a commanding and persuasive interlocking of personal, intellectual, and social history that will be read, dissected, and honored as the masterpiece it is for decades to come. A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2003; a Lambda Award finalist.

About the Author

James McCourt is the author of Mawrdew Czgowchwz, Time Remaining, Delancey’s Way, Now Voyagers: The Night Sea Journey and Queer Street. He has contributed to the Yale Review, The New Yorker, and the Paris Review. He lives in New York City and Washington, D.C.