Stan Leventhal

Mountain Climbing in Sheridan Square (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A series of discrete episodes among friends provide snapshots of one gay man's life. There are parties, concerts, dinners with everyday life - and death - interwoven in the rich story-telling. An actress, a painter, a set designer, a writer - all sweating and surviving in Manhattan, all scoring their first successes. Part autobiography and part documentary, artfully written, it details the lives of these creative people. Young and professional, they know there is more to life than money. There is trust and the sort of love that trades in deeds of kindness. Leventhal's debut novel was welcomed warmly as a Lambda Literary Awards Finalist in 1988. This new edition features a foreword by Christopher Bram (Gods and Monsters). "This is a finely crafted romp - I kept hollering to my lover from the reading room, "Hey, honey, let me read you this piece - it's a scream." We chuckled our way through the narrator's trials and triumphs. We both found him to be a likeable and endearing chap and are anxious to learn more of his adventures. - Kimberly Moore Webster, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force "An actress, a painter, a set designer, a writer - all sweating and surviving in Manhattan, all scoring their first successes - these are the real-life figures of Leventhal's book. Part autobiography and part documentary, artfully written, it details the lives of these creative people, some of whom are gay. Young and professional, yet hardly 'yuppies', they know there is more to life than money. There is, for example, trust, and the sort of love that trades in deeds of kindness." - Robert Boucheron, Epitaphs for the Plague Dead "It's a privilege to know this narrator. He's aware that he doesn't know all the answers, and he's willing to continue discovering the questions. He's willing to do the work to see whether his dreams will hold up as his realities. He doesn't complain - just describes the absurdities he encounters. He doesn't hate women or straights, and he loves kids. He's just folks, and more peaceful and purposeful than most." - Meg Umans, Humanspace Books

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: ReQueered Tales
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781951092207
• Artikelnr.: 58742480

Autorenporträt

Stan Leventhal, author, editor, and publisher, lived in New York City in the 1980s through 1995 where he died of AIDS. He is fondly remembered as a generous, genuine and passionate advocate for social causes and other writers. He was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award three times: for he debut novel Mountain Climbing in Sheridan Square, Faultlines and The Black Marble Pool. He published one other novel and three collections of short stories.He served as a judge for the annual Bill Whitehead Memorial Award and was a member of the Publishing Triangle Steering Committee. His short stories and reviews appeared in Outweek, The Advocate, The New York Native, Torso, Mandate, Exquisite Corpse, The James White Review and Gaylaxian Gayzette.In addition, his work appeared in the anthologies: Gay Life, edited by Eric E. Rofes; Shadows of Love, edited by Charles Jurris; The Stiffest of the Corpse, edited by Andrei Codrescu; and Sword of the Rainbow, edited by Eric Garber and Jewelle Gomez. The author was actively involved in the fight for literacy. His message to his readers: "Literature is crucial to our lives; reading is fun."