Dark Reflections - Softcover

Delany, Samuel

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ISBN 10: 0486809099 ISBN 13: 9780486809090

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"One of the most profound and courageous writers at work today." — Michael Cunningham (The Hours). This Stonewall Book Award-winning novel traces the life and unrealized dreams of a homosexual African-American poet. Beautifully written in reverse chronological order, the story opens with Arnold Hawley's lonely old age, revisits his ill-fated marriage, and concludes with his arrival in New York City, where he forms a lasting bond with his formidable aunt.

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"Samuel R. Delany is not only one of the most profound and courageous writers at work today, he is a writer of seemingly limitless range."--Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours.
This Stonewall Book Award-winning novel traces the life and unrealized dreams of Arnold Hawley, a homosexual African-American poet. Albert's poetry ultimately meets with modest acclaim but only after decades of striving. Romance and friendship are likewise elusive, despite an impulsive marriage to a stranger. His outsider status--black, gay, and a poet--compounds his struggles to create art, to find a readership, and to lead a meaningful existence.
Beautifully written in reverse chronological order, the story opens with Albert's lonely old age and ventures back in time to his arrival in New York City of the 1950s. A meditation on isolation and sexual repression, Dark Reflections also offers an acerbic look at the literary world and the frustrations intrinsic to artistic life.
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Author, professor, and literary critic Samuel R. Delany has received both Nebula and Hugo awards. In addition to his bestselling science-fiction novel Dhalgren, he has written literary fiction, criticism, and essays on sexuality and society.

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PublisherDover Publications Inc
Publication date2016
ISBN 10 0486809099
ISBN 13 9780486809090
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