{"product_id":"what-i-did-wrong-paperback","title":"What I Did Wrong - 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\u003eJohn Weir\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in a rapidly gentrifying New York City determined to move beyond the decimation of a generation a decade earlier, \u003ci\u003eWhat I Did Wrong \u003c\/i\u003eis a day in the life of Tom, a forty-two-year-old English professor, haunted by the death of his best friend, Zack, who died theatrically and calamitously of AIDS. Tom himself slouches gingerly and precariously into middle age questioning every certainty he had about himself as a gay man while negotiating the field of his college classes, populated as they are with guys whose cocky bravado can't quite compensate for their own confused masculinity. Tom tries to balance his awkwardly developing friendships with them. In the process, he begins to find common ground with these proud young men and, surprisingly, a way to claim his own place in the world, and in history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA powerfully moving--and often disarmingly funny--book about loss, character, and sexuality in the wake of AIDS, \u003ci\u003eWhat I Did Wrong \u003c\/i\u003eis a survivor's tale in an age when all certainties have lost their logic and focus. It is a romance that embraces its objects from the traumas of toxic masculinity to the aftermath of catastrophic loss amidst the enduring allure of New York City in all its manic and heartbreaking grandeur.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA wry memoir of the AIDS era that is not so much elegy as ode to a hopeful and even lyric future.--\u003ci\u003eThe Baltimore Sun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Weir\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of English and creative writing at Queens College, CUNY. He is the author of two novels, \u003ci\u003e The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWhat I Did Wrong\u003c\/i\u003e, both available from New York ReLit, an imprint of Fordham University Press. Weir's short story collection, \u003ci\u003eYour Nostalgia Is Killing Me\u003c\/i\u003e (Red Hen Press, 2022), is the winner of the 2020 AWP Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.58 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 03, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47252336148729,"sku":"9780823299454","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/OG5yOUZVcWlxNWhEVHNMZjlhenRxdz09.webp?v=1768685223","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/what-i-did-wrong-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}