{"product_id":"sketchtasy-paperback","title":"Sketchtasy - 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\u003eMattilda Bernstein Sycamore\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSketchtasy\u003c\/i\u003e takes place in that late-night moment when everything comes together, and everything falls apart--it's an urgent, glittering, devastating novel about the perils of queer world-making in the mid-'90s. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This is Boston in 1995, a city defined by a rabid fear of difference. Alexa, an incisive twenty-one-year-old queen, faces everyday brutality with determined nonchalance. Rejecting middle-class pretensions, she negotiates past and present traumas with a scathing critique of the world. Drawn to the ecstasy of drugged-out escapades, Alexa searches for nourishment in a gay culture bonded by clubs and conformity, willful apathy, and the specter of AIDS. Is there any hope for communal care? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eSketchtasy\u003c\/i\u003e brings 1990s gay culture startlingly back to life, as Alexa and her friends grapple with the impact of growing up at a time when desire and death are intertwined. With an intoxicating voice and unruly cadence, this is a shattering, incandescent novel that conjures the pain and pageantry of struggling to imagine a future.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the award-winning author of a memoir and three novels, and the editor of five non-fiction anthologies. Her memoir \u003ci\u003eThe End of San Francisco\u003c\/i\u003e won a Lambda Literary Award, and her most recent anthology, \u003ci\u003eWhy Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?\u003c\/i\u003e, was an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book. \u003ci\u003eSketchtasy\u003c\/i\u003e is her third novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 7.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 16, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47247259828473,"sku":"9781551527291","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/aPb8UGa0wL9781551527291.webp?v=1768621297","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/sketchtasy-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}