I Am Not Myself These Days: A Memoir - Softcover

Kilmer-Purcell, Josh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060817321 ISBN 13: 9780060817329

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2006

Synopsis

The New York Times bestselling, darkly funny memoirof a young New Yorker's daring dual life--advertising art director by day, glitter-dripping drag queen and nightclub beauty-pageant hopeful by night--was asmash literary debut for Josh Kilmer-Purcell, now known for his popular PlanetGreen television series The Fabulous Beekman Boys.His story begins here--before the homemade goat milk soaps and hand-gatheredhoneys, before his memoir of the city mouse's move to the country, TheBucolic Plague--in I Am Not Myself These Days, with "plenty of dishy anecdotes and moments of tragi-camp delight" (WashingtonPost).

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Product Description:

I am Not Myself These Days In this darkly funny and brilliantly written noiresque memoir, a young New York City advertising art director by day/glittering nightclub drag queen and amateur beauty pageant contestant by night finds himself struggling to keep his high heels grounded during a doomed romance with his penthouse-living, crack-addicted, male escort boyfriend.

Review:

"Funny and wise." -- Metro

."..impossible to look away." -- Publishers Weekly

."..decadent and delirious, weird and wonderful." -- The New York Blade

."..a good read, as you'd expect." -- Advertising Age

."..it's one hell of a spellbinding read." -- Chicago Sun-Times

Book Sense Pick for March 2006 -- Book Sense

."a very entertaining read. as tart and funny as a Noel Coward play, for Kilmer-Purcell is especially good at dialogue, and, as in Coward's best plays, under the comedy lies the sad truth that even at our best, we are all weak, fallible fools. Again and again in this rich, adventure-filled book, Kilmer-Purcell illustrates the truth of Blake's proverb, 'The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.'" -- Booklist

."..a talented new voice." -- Buzz Magazine

Funny and wise. --Metro

Recipient of Elle s Readers Prize 2006--Elle

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0060817321
• ISBN 13: 9780060817329
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336