Time Remaining
by James McCourt
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"From the author of Mawrdew Czgowchwz ... and Kaye Wayfaring in "Avenged" ... - two wildly brilliant, moving, electric stories of gay life in New York during the last twenty-five years." "The first story introduces Delancey, performance artist and, in his words, "one of the sole survivors" of a band known as the Eleven against Heaven. Delancey's recollections of four decades in the flamboyant New York wilds - spirited, defiant, festive, bright as paint (or acid) - are filled with the force show more of longing and the melodrama of remembering." "Delancey's prologue sets the stage for the title story, "Time Remaining," in which the formidable Odette O'Doyle - semi-retired transvestite ballerina, veteran of foreign wars, and polymath recorder of the stories of valiant lives - assumes the spotlight. On a midnight train to Long Island's South Fork, Odette reports on his just-completed mission: he has deposited the ashes of eight of the former "Eleven" in various rivers, canals, fjords, and harbors of Europe. Through the ceremonies of time, travel, ritual re-enactment, and eternal return, this renegade celebrant officiates at something very like an Irish Catholic wake. He recalls a glittering chain of outrageous adventures and a terrible history of decimating disease and death while conducting a private service of reconciliation and renewal." "Time Remaining is a moving, defiantly hilarious solemnization of life and love in the age of AIDS."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved show lessTags
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James McCourt is the author of three novels and two shortstory collections. He has contributed to the Yale Review, The New Yorker, and the Paris Review. He lives in New York City and Washington, DC
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- 1993
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