Briefly Told Lives - Softcover

Cole, C.Bard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312276907 ISBN 13: 9780312276904

Publisher: Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S., 2002

Synopsis

A collection of powerful short fiction offers an intense exploration, through short stories and vignettes, of gay life outside the Ghetto--on the margin of both straight society and gay "mainstream." Reprint.

About this title

About the Author:

C. Bard Cole is one of the leading literary figures to emerge from the queer punk movement on the 1990s. His fiction and cartoons have appeared in Holy Titclamps, Riotboy, Dirty, Boy Trouble, and queer zines, as well as in self-published chapbooks liked Tattoed Love Boys and Fag Sex in High School. His stories have appeared in numerous anthologies, including Men on Men 7 and Flesh and the Word 4. Born in Baltimore County, Maryland, he attended Sarah Lawrence College and Parsons School of Design. He lives in the East Village in New York City.

Synopsis:

BRIEFLY TOLD LIVES is a powerful and imaginative collection of stories and vignettes from gay life outside the ghetto. Existing on the margins of both straight society and the gay 'mainstream', the characters in this book inhabit a twilight world of sex, crime and desire. Be it an Irish immigrant who stores weapons to be smuggled out to Irish revolutionary groups, a paraplegic looking for community and love; or a couple whose relationship is a volatile mix of sex, drugs, and disgust, Cole's work is brash and insightful, bringing a very different, hidden gay world into the literary limelight.

About this edition

• Publisher: Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0312276907
• ISBN 13: 9780312276904
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224