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Visions and Revisions

Coming of Age in the Age of AIDs

by Dale Peck
Jeff Woodman
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Part memoir, part extended essay, Visions and Revisions is a revolutionary look at the 1990s AIDS epidemic from ""one of our most adventurous and singularly talented writers working today"" (San Francisco Chronicle). Reminiscent of Joan Didion's White Album or Kurt Vonnegut's Palm Sunday, Visions and Revisions is a collage-style portrait of a tumultuous era that puts the listener on the streets of NYC during the early '90s AIDS crisis, also touching on such diverse subjects as the serial murders of gay men, Peck's first loves upon coming out, and the transformation of LGBT people from marginal, idealistic fighters to their present place in a world of widespread, if fraught, mainstream acceptance. Visions and Revisions capitalizes on a wave of increased interest in the HIV/AIDS epidemic, with the recent premiere of the groundbreaking AIDS documentary How to Survive a Plague. This is the first memoir by one of our most controversial contemporary writers, and it offers a jarring, street-level portrait of AIDS activism in the 1990s. Visions and Revisions will follow the Soho Press reissue of Dale Peck's debut novel, Martin and John, which received stunning critical praise, as well as our release of a new anthology he is editing. Novelist and critic Dale Peck's latest work - part memoir, part extended essay - is a foray into what the author calls ""the second half of the first half AIDS epidemic,"" i.e., the period between 1987, when the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) was founded, and 1996, when the advent of combination therapy transformed AIDS from a virtual death sentence into a chronic, manageable illness. Visions and Revisions has been assembled from more than a dozen essays and articles that have been extensively rewritten and recombined to form a sweeping, collage-style portrait of a tumultuous era.

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    April 7, 2015

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      • ISBN: 9781490656793
      • File size: 168710 KB
      • Duration: 05:51:28

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      September 15, 2015

      Activist, critic, and novelist Peck (Body Surfing) presents a collection of essays consisting of memoir and criticism covering the period 1987-96, the founding of ACT UP to the advent of lifesaving combination drug therapy for AIDS. The subject matter ranges from activist history to personal journals, from cultural criticism to journalistic coverage of serial killings of gay men. Peck is fearlessly and graphically self-revelatory in this portrait of an era shaped by fear and death that nonetheless created relationships and connections not otherwise possible. Narrator Jeff Woodman's frank reading creates a sense of intimacy. VERDICT Recommended for listeners interested in a vivid portrait of the time who are willing to mix some literary criticism with the memoir format. ["A powerful, gritty social commentary complemented by the author's coming-of-age story as a young adult during this tumultuous time. Recommended for progressive biography and memoir readers, human rights activists, and contemporary American history enthusiasts": LJ 3/15/15 review of the Soho hc.]--Jason Puckett, Georgia State Univ. Lib., Atlanta

      Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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