Novelist and critic Dale Peckâ€™s latest workâ€”part memoir, part extended essayâ€”is a foray into what the author calls â€œthe second half of the first half of the AIDS

Visions and Revisions
- Echoes of Joan Didion's The White Album and Kurt Vonnegut's Palm Sunday: A nostalgic journey
- A vibrant, swirling tale of a chaotic time
- Explores a range of topics, from the AIDS crisis to LGBTQ+ themes and unsolved crimes
Novelist and critic Dale Peckâ€™s latest workâ€”part memoir, part extended essayâ€”is a foray into what the author calls â€œthe second half of the first half of the AIDS epidemic,â€ 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.

Reminiscent of Joan Didionâ€™s The White Album and Kurt Vonnegutâ€™s Palm Sunday, Visions and Revisions is a sweeping, collage-style portrait of a tumultuous era. Moving seamlessly from the lyrical to the analytical to the reportorial, Peckâ€™s story takes readers from the serial killings of gay men in New York, London, and Milwaukee, through Peckâ€™s first loves upon coming out of the closet, to the transformation of LGBT people from marginal, idealistic fighters to their present place in a world of widespread, if fraught, mainstream acceptance.

The narrative pays particular attention the words and deeds of AIDS activists, offering a streetlevel portrait of ACT UP with considerations of AIDS-centered fiction and criticism of the era, as well as intimate, sometimes elegiac portraits of artists, activists, and HIV-positive people Peck knew. Peckâ€™s fiery rhetoric against a government that sat on its hands for the first several years of the epidemic is tinged with the idealism of a young gay man discovering his political, artistic, and sexual identity. The result is a visionary and indispensable work from one of Americaâ€™s most brilliant and controversial authors.
Country USA
Brand Soho Press
Manufacturer Soho Press
Binding Hardcover
Height 8.56
Length 5.7
Weight 0.80027801106
Width 0.83
ReleaseDate 2015-04-07

Country	USA
Brand	Soho Press
Manufacturer	Soho Press
Binding	Hardcover
Height	8.56
Length	5.7
Weight	0.80027801106
Width	0.83
ReleaseDate	2015-04-07

Visions and Revisions

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