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Atlantis - Three Tales (book)

Publisher: University Press of New England

Author: Samuel R. Delany

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212 pages, hardcover, limited quantity

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In these marvelous stories, Samuel R. Delany explores the intricate interdependencies of memory, experience, and the self. We begin with "Atlantis Model 1924", a short novel that tells of a young African-American's first six months in 1920s New York, and of the sharp contrast between his experiences there and his childhood and adolescence in North Carolina. But the tale is far more than that. In Harlem young Sam discovers his own Renaissance, both in his renewed ties with the older siblings he's rejoined, and in his encounters with New York - the New York of Paul Robeson, Jean Toomer and Hart Crane, some of whom linger at the story's edge, some of whom erupt into its center. In a wonder-filled fictive meditation on the artist's childhood, "erik, Gwen and DH Lawrence's Esthetic of Unrectified Feeling" traces the development of a formalistic esthetic even as it shows the comic place of trangression within that very esthetic. Delany's portraits of mid-century art classes, music lessons and the general vagaries of New York private schools are exquisite. "Citre et Trans" tells of a black American writer's sojourn in Greece in the mid-1960's. A section of the tale appeared in Susie Bright's anthology The Best American Erotica of 1993, where it attracted much acclaim for its handling of the topics of rape and retribution.

Samuel R Delany is the most prominent gay, African-American science fiction writer, in fact he's the only one we know of!

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