Blackouts

Resumen del libro

An intimate, emotionally rich novel, in which two men - young and old - reckon with queer histories and their place within them, from the critically acclaimed author of We the AnimalsJuan Gay is on his deathbed. He has decided to spend his last days in The Palace: a monumental, fading institution in the desert, which was an asylum in another lifetime. There, a young man tends to this dying soul - someone who Juan met only once, but who has haunted the edges of his life ever since.

As the end approaches, the two trade stories - resurrecting lost loves, lives, mothers and fathers - and their lives are woven, ineluctably, into a broader story of pathology and oppression. Charged with sifting through Juan's belongings, our narrator uncovers a copy of Sex Variants: A Study in Homosexual Patterns, its pages blacked out, censored, reduced down to poetic dispatches. And, as he sifts through the manuscript, another story is told: that of Jan Gay - a radical, queer anthropologist - whose ground-breaking work was co-opted, and stifled, by the committee she served.

Blackouts is a haunting, dreamlike rumination on memory and erasure, blending fact with fiction - drawing from historical records, screenplays, testimony and image - to force us to look again at the world we have inherited and the narratives we have received.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Justin Torresx{0026}lt;/B (Nueva York, 1980) es una joven promesa de la literatura norteamericana. Justin también trabaja como profesor en la Universidad de California. Algunos de sus relatos han aparecido en x{0026}lt;I The New Yorkerx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Grantax{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Tin Housex{0026}lt;/I , entre otros. x{0026}lt;I Nosotros los animalesx{0026}lt;/I , que supone su debut como novelista, ha sido adaptada al cine.x{0026}lt;/P