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

Mccourt, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393326403 ISBN 13: 9780393326406

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2005

Synopsis

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.

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Review

""Queer Street is a diorama of the crucial decades of gay culture.... Here is the gay soul's encyclopedia."

Synopsis

James McCourt's seminal Queer Street has proven unrivalled in its ability to capture the voices of a mad, bygone era. Beginning with the influx of liberated veterans into downtown New York and barrelling 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 honoured as the masterpiece it is for decades to come.

Edition details

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0393326403
• ISBN 13: 9780393326406
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 592