Immortal for Quite Some Time

ISBN-13: 9781607815143 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 268 str.

Scott Abbott

Opis

This is not a memoir. Rather, this is a fraternal meditation on the question: Are we friends, mybrother? The story is uncertain, the characters are in flux, the voices are plural, the photographs are as troubled as the prose. This is not a memoir.
Thus Scott Abbott introduces the reader to his exploration of the life of his brother John, a man whodied of AIDS in 1991 at the age of forty. Writing about his brother, he finds he is writing about himself and about the warm-hearted, educated, and homophobic LDS family that forged the core of his identity.
Images and quotations are interwoven with the reflections, as is a critical female voice that questionshis assertions and ridicules his rhetoric. The book moves from the starkness of a morgue s autopsy through familialdisintegration and adult defiance to a culminating fraternal conversation. This exquisitely written work will challenge notions of resolution and wholeness.Winner of the book manuscript prize in creative nonfiction in the Utah Arts Council s Original Writing Competition."