India 1940: An army nurse gives birth to the son of a British soldier killed in Burma. The child, left on the steps of a Hindu temple, is rescued by an old woman, who names him Bal and believes he is Lord Vishnu's gift to her, but she dies, and the unwanted orphan falls to the care of a low-caste Bh
In the Shadow of the American Dream: The Diaries of David Wojnarowicz
โ Scribed by Wojnarowicz, David
- Book ID
- 107900035
- Publisher
- Open Road Media
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 3 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781480489608
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โฆ Synopsis
From life in the streets and love in the alleys to fame in the spotlight and an untimely deathโraw, biting, and brilliant selections from the personal journals of one of the most uniquely creative artists of the late twentieth centuryWhen his life ended at age thirty-sevenโa casualty of the AIDS epidemic that took so many before their timeโDavid Wojnarowicz had long since established himself as one of America's most vital artists and activists.In the Shadow of the American Dreamis a stunning collection of riveting and revealing chapters from Wojnarowicz's extensive personal diariesโthirty volumes' worth of memories and lucid observations, some bitter, some sweetโthat the author began writing when he was seventeen and continued until his death two decades later. Here is a brilliant chronicle of an artist's emergenceโa young man's still achingly fresh memories of his unhappy adolescence and his glorious discovery of self. Wojnarowicz recalls...
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