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    Visions and Revisions: Coming of Age in the Age of AIDs
    Visions and Revisions: Coming of Age in the Age of AIDs
    Visions and Revisions: Coming of Age in the Age of AIDs
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    Visions and Revisions: Coming of Age in the Age of AIDs

    Written by Dale Peck

    Narrated by Jeff Woodman

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    Part memoir, part extended essay, Visions and Revisions is a revolutionary look at the 1990s AIDS epidemic from ""one of our most adventurous and singularly talented writers working today"" (San Francisco Chronicle). Reminiscent of Joan Didion's White Album or Kurt Vonnegut's Palm Sunday, Visions and Revisions is a collage-style portrait of a tumultuous era that puts the listener on the streets of NYC during the early '90s AIDS crisis, also touching on such diverse subjects as the serial murders of gay men, Peck's first loves upon coming out, and the transformation of LGBT people from marginal, idealistic fighters to their present place in a world of widespread, if fraught, mainstream acceptance. Visions and Revisions capitalizes on a wave of increased interest in the HIV/AIDS epidemic, with the recent premiere of the groundbreaking AIDS documentary How to Survive a Plague. This is the first memoir by one of our most controversial contemporary writers, and it offers a jarring, street-level portrait of AIDS activism in the 1990s. Visions and Revisions will follow the Soho Press reissue of Dale Peck's debut novel, Martin and John, which received stunning critical praise, as well as our release of a new anthology he is editing. Novelist and critic Dale Peck's latest work - part memoir, part extended essay - is a foray into what the author calls ""the second half of the first half AIDS epidemic,"" i.e., the period between 1987, when the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) was founded, and 1996, when the advent of combination therapy transformed AIDS from a virtual death sentence into a chronic, manageable illness. Visions and Revisions has been assembled from more than a dozen essays and articles that have been extensively rewritten and recombined to form a sweeping, collage-style portrait of a tumultuous era.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateApr 7, 2015
    ISBN9781490662053
    Visions and Revisions: Coming of Age in the Age of AIDs
    Author

    Dale Peck

    Dale Peck is the author of twelve books in a variety of genres, including Martin and John, Hatchet Jobs, and Sprout. His fiction and criticism have earned him two O. Henry Awards, a Pushcart Prize, a Lambda Literary Award, and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. He lives in New York City, where he teaches in the New School’s Graduate Writing Program.

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    • 5/5
      Every few years a memoir comes out that tends to sneak by everyone no matter how good the reviews. There are some great ones like “H is for Hawk” and “A Shepherd’s Life” that, for good reason, stay and stay on the best seller list. The one you shouldn’t ignore is “Vision and Revisions: Coming of Age in the Age of AIDS” by Dale Peck. It’s received so much good press all over NPR and the New York Times that I knew I had to read it.It has landed on my top 5 list for best memoirs -- ever. I kept thinking of (being reminded of) Joan Didion while reading the book and she’s the gold standard by which I judge every memoir and literate, intelligent writing.“Visions and Revisions” is not for the squeamish or the prudish. There are gay sex scenes and acts described throughout. Don’t let that deter you. The primary framework for the book is the war on AIDS and AIDS’ war on gay culture and how those wars were won or lost.. In the end it’s as much about a culture lost on the slippery slope of assimilation into the mainstream. Not an especially good thing according to Peck. Or to me either. In case you’re wondering my other all time best memoirs are:“Where I Was From” by Joan Didion“Fun Home” by Allison Bechdel“The Tender Bar” by J. R. Moehringer
    • 5/5
      Dale Peck's Visions and Revisions is part memoir and part historical and cultural analysis written in a fierce, tight and poetic style that brought me right back to those horrible and life-changing days before protease inhibitors. While not a full history of ACT UP it gives an excellent sense of what it was like to organize when it was a matter of life and death and there was nothing to lose. While sometimes it seems as if it was so long ago and that the communities that was created, especially in large cities, have moved on, I still see remnants of it in #BlackLivesMatter or in Occupy Wall Street (and of course the biggest debt also goes to the Civil Rights movement) or in the organizing in the Trans community. I love Peck's bold style and his ability to write about his sexuality in a raw and unapologetic manner and his rage at a government that did not care whether gay people lived or died. The last part of the book "13 Ecstasies of the Soul" knocked me flat out (and I agree with the reviewer who said it reminded him of "Love Alone: Eighteen Elegies for Rog) and I confess I wept and then began reading the book again. Thank you Edelweiss for allowing me to review this book for an honest opinion.