The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village, 1960-1965
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781563331336 (1563331330)
Publish date: June 1st 1993
Publisher: Richard Kasak Book
Pages no: 519
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
Language,
Literature,
Biography Memoir,
Glbt,
Queer,
Gay
You can't really review (let alone rate) someone's life. Delany is a much-lauded author whose fiction I've always bounced off. This account of his life (primarily from 18 to early 20s) also functions as a discussion of memory, and of the choices made in narrative and the re-telling of true stories...
Originally reviewed here.Why I Read It: Required reading for my Gender and Sexuality in Literature course.This is a difficult book to review; it's a very heavy novel, both in page number and in content and it introduced so many concepts to me that I'm still trying to wrap my head around.I should als...
13 years ago
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