{"product_id":"about-ed-paperback-1","title":"About Ed - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Gluck\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA moving story about love, AIDS, grief, and memory by one of the most adventurous writers to come out of San Francisco's LGBTQ+ scene.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBob Gl?k met Ed Aulerich-Sugai in 1970. Ed was an aspiring artist; Bob wanted to write. They were young men in San Francisco at the high tide of sexual liberation and soon, and for eight years, they were lovers, after which they were friends. Ed was an explorer in the realms of sex. He was beautiful, fragile, exasperating, serious, unassuaged. In 1994 he died of HIV. His dream notebooks became a touchstone for this book, which Gl?k has been working on for some two decades, while also making his name as a proponent of New Narrative writing and as one of America's most unusual, venturesome, and lyrical authors. \u003ci\u003eAbout Ed\u003c\/i\u003e is about Ed, who remains, as our dead do, both familiar and unknowable, faraway and close. It is about Bob too. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book is a hybrid, at once fiction and fact, like memory, and it takes in many things through tales of political activism and domestic comedy and fury to questions of art and love and experiences of longing and horror. The book also shifts in register, from the delicate to the analytic, to funny and explicit and heartbroken. It begins in the San Francisco of the early 1980s, when Ed and Bob have been broken up for a while. aIds is spreading, but Ed has yet to receive his diagnosis. It follows him backward through his life with Bob in the 1970s and forward through the harrowing particulars of death. It holds on to him and explores his art. It ends in his dreams.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Glück\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, fiction writer, critic, and editor. With Bruce Boone, he founded the New Narrative movement in San Francisco. His poetry collections include \u003ci\u003eReader \u003c\/i\u003eand, with Boone, \u003ci\u003eLa Fontaine\u003c\/i\u003e. His fiction includes the story collection \u003ci\u003eDenny Smith\u003c\/i\u003e, and the novel \u003ci\u003eJack the Modernist\u003c\/i\u003e. Glück edited, with Camille Roy, Mary Berger, and Gail Scott, the anthology \u003ci\u003eBiting The Error: Writers Explore Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e, and his collected essays, \u003ci\u003eCommunal Nude\u003c\/i\u003e, appeared in 2016. Glück served as the director of San Francisco State's Poetry Center, co-director of the Small Press Traffic Literary Center, and associate editor at Lapis Press. NYRB Classics reissued his novel \u003ci\u003eMargery Kempe\u003c\/i\u003e in 2020. He lives in San Francisco.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.4 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 14, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47188434551033,"sku":"9781681377766","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/f5DKO2BDoq9781681377766_fa2c445c-2042-4572-a039-b1c14eb25c9f.webp?v=1767866721","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/about-ed-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}