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The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village

By Delany , Samuel R

Book information

Publisher
Open Road Media
ISBN
9781480461727, 1480461725
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
5 MB (5089635 bytes)
Pages
572 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
American -- 20th century -- Biography;BohemianiAmerican -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -American--20th century;AuthorsAmerican--Homes and haunts--New York (State)--NewAmerican--Homes and haunts;Bohemianism;BohemianismAmerican;AuthorsAuthorsSamuel R;Authors

Description

In the bohemian sixties, a young writer tries to make sense of his life With the poet Marilyn Hacker, Delany moves into a tenement on a dead-end street that the landlord reserves for interracial couples. Between playing folk music in the evenings at the same Greenwich Village coffee shop as Bob Dylan and preparing shrimp curry for W.H. Auden and Chester Khalman, who have accepted an invitation that night for dinner, Delany takes a stab at writing science fiction. This young prodigy would complete and sell five novels before he turned twenty-two! (And then have a nervous breakdown . . .) This beautifully written memoir is a testament to a neighborhood where experimentation was a way of life. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Samuel R. Delany including rare images from his early career.

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