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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, and some welcome insight into the life of a writer. (  ) iceT | May 21, 2009 |  hyperpat | Oct 23, 2007 | There are actually two editions of this book, which seem to have been combined by diligent LibraryThingers. The copyright 1988 book is the shorter, Delany not wanting to offend anyone and not naming names. He then discovered that most of them were anxious to be included, so the 1993 edition has more specific information. This is a gay African American author's memoirs of growing up in New York City and becoming a writer. Most of the book is about living with a group of people in an apartment in the East Village in the middle sixties. The most interesting material for me was the Sixties Greenwich Village ambiance, Delany's explorations into his sexuality, and his and Marilyn Hacker's (his former wife) struggles to learn to be writers. A lot of the territory covered here is also covered in Delany's Heavenly Breakfast. I think Heavenly Breakfast is the better read, but Motion of Light on Water has much more detailed information (  ) aulsmith | Aug 5, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
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"Absolutely central to any consideration of black manhood. . . . Delany’s vision of the necessity for total social and political transformation is revolutionary." —Hazel Carby
"The prose of The Motion of Light in Water often has the shimmering beauty of the title itself. . . . This book is invaluable gay history." —Inches Magazine
Born in New York City’s black ghetto Harlem at the start of World War II, Samuel R. Delany married white poet Marilyn Hacker right out of high school. The interracial couple moved into the city’s new bohemian quarter, the Lower East Side, in summer 1961. Through the decade’s opening years, new art, new sexual practices, new music, and new political awareness burgeoned among the crowded streets and cheap railroad apartments. Beautifully, vividly, insightfully, Delany calls up this era of exploration and adventure as he details his development as a black gay writer in an open marriage, with tertiary walk-ons by Bob Dylan, Stokely Carmichael, W. H. Auden, and James Baldwin, and a panoply of brilliantly drawn secondary characters.
Winner of the 1989 Hugo Award for Non-fiction
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